How Do We Help? : The Free Market of Development Aid
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2012
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| Authors: | Develtere, Patrick |
| Publisher: |
Leuven : Leuven University Press |
| Subject: | Entwicklungshilfe | Development aid | Entwicklungsländer | Developing countries | Marktwirtschaft | Market economy | Welt | World |
| Description of contents: | Table of Contents [gbv.de] |
| Extent: | Online-Ressource (268 p) |
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| Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record Preface; Introduction; Development cooperation: community, arena and, increasingly, market ; An expanding community; An arena with plenty to fight over; A market with many transactions; From colonialism to the Millennium Development Goals; Colonial warm-up exercises; Technical cooperation and knowledge transfer; Faith in development aid; Development cooperation: aid in a global setting; The Washington Consensus and structural adjustments; International cooperation and the Millennium Development Goals; Addressing poverty in exchange for debt relief; Is Paris introducing order to the market? More than development aidCooperation means partners; Internationally: among specialists; Recipient countries: donor darlings and donor orphans; Official bilateral cooperation: fractions and fragmentation; Small players and institutional pluralism; In search of an institutional foundation for development cooperation; Decentralisation in order to get closer to the public, or for other reasons?; Europe's development cooperation patchwork; Seeking identity and complementarity; From Yaoundé to Cotonou: from association to agreement; Strengths and weaknesses of the ACP-EU partnership The Cotonou AgreementThe European Development Fund; Other instruments; Europe: a major pioneer?; A choice in favour of Africa?; Multilateral cooperation: the UN galaxy; The UN and development cooperation; The World Bank: not a cooperative; Regional development banks; The United Nations Development Programme; The rise of new vertical programmes on the UN market; 'Deliver as one': seeking cooperation on the market; The NGDOs: bringing values onto the market; A movement with many faces; A sector with many roles; Several generations of NGDOs; A sector with many different visions and strategies A movement with a plural support baseThe sector breaks free from the NGDOs; Is a new social movement becoming a network movement?; A fourth pillar on the market; The key players of the fourth pillar; A new generation of altruists?; Starting from a different field; An alternative way of working; Mainstreaming development cooperation; Humanitarian aid: in good shape or going downhill? ; What place for emergency aid?; Needs and promises; Cash-and-carry on the market?; The unbearable lightness of the support for development cooperation; The uneasy relationship with the support base No (more) aid fatigue?Popular, yet little understood; Something needs to be done: but by whom?; Drawing up the balance sheet; Progress, but too little, too slowly and not for everyone; Are we really that generous?; Who is receiving aid?; The effectiveness and impact of development cooperation; Development cooperation: a stumbling-block?; Conclusion; Abbreviations; Endnotes; Glossary; Bibliography |
| ISBN: | 978-90-5867-902-4 ; 978-94-6166-065-7 ; 978-90-5867-902-4 |
| Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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