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Ending Aid Dependence
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Artikel-Nr:
9781906387310
Veröffentl:
2008
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.11.2008
Seiten:
158
Autor:
Yash Tandon
Gewicht:
178 g
Format:
198x130x12 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Yash Tandon is a senior advisor and writer for the South Centre, Geneva, an intergovernmental think-tank of developing countries, and has been a policy maker, political activist, professor, and public intellectual. He has written more than 100 scholarly articles and haswritten and edited books on subjects ranging from African politics and international economics to human rights. Benjamin W. Mkapa is the former president of Tanzania."
Developing countries reliant on aid want to escape this dependence, and yet they appear unable to do so. Ending Aid Dependence shows how they may liberate themselves from the aid that pretends to be developmental but is not.
1 The bigger picture: Why should developing countries escape aid dependence? Is aid what it says it is? OECD's definition of development aid What is development? Aid taxonomy A litany of false questions and solutions Conclusion 2 Case histories: the consequences of aid dependence Red Aid - the poisoned chalice Structural adjustment: Zambia 1978-2002 Structural adjustment: Zimbabwe 1980-97 Other cases Conclusion and postscript 3 An exit strategy: seven steps to end aid dependence Introduction The national project What creates aid dependence? Seven steps to end aid dependence 4 The international aid architecture: structures, processes and issues The international aid architecture Restructuring the architecture: parallelism and reform 5 Summary and conclusions: the future of aid