Why We Lie About Aid (eBook)

Development and the Messy Politics of Change

Pablo Yanguas (Autor)

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2018
275 Seiten
Zed Books (Verlag)
978-1-78360-936-9 (ISBN)

Infos

A provocative look at the truth behind aid and its real
meaning of political influence and struggle.

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Foreign aid is about charity. International development is about technical fixes. At least that is what we, as donor publics, are constantly told. The result is a highly dysfunctional aid system which mistakes short-term results for long-term transformation and gets attacked across the political spectrum, with the right claiming we spend too much, and the left that we don't spend enough.The reality, as Yanguas argues in this highly provocative book, is that aid isn't or at least shouldn't be about levels of spending, nor interventions shackled to vague notions of 'accountability' and 'ownership'. Instead, a different approach is possible, one that acknowledges aid as being about struggle, about taking sides, about politics. It is an approach that has been quietly applied by innovative development practitioners around the world, providing political coverage for local reformers to open up spaces for change. Drawing on a variety of convention-defying stories from a variety of countries from Britain to the US, Sierra Leone to Honduras Yanguas provides an eye-opening account of what we really mean when we talk about aid.

Autor

lt;p>Pablo Yanguas is a research fellow with the Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre (ESID) at the University of Manchester.

Inhalt

• Introduction
  
• 1. The Theatrics of Aid Debates
  
• 2. The Banality of Certainty
  
• 3. The Ugly Politics of Change
  
• 4. The Limits of Donor Influence
  
• 5. The Paradoxes of Development Diplomacy
  
• 6. The Struggle of Thinking Politically
  
• 7. Understanding the Messy Politics of Change
  
• Conclusion
  

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.2.2018
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Aid and Authoritarianism in Africa • Andrew Brooks • Ayesha Ahmad • Brian Levy • Chris Beckett • Clothing Poverty • Complex Emergencies • Dambisa Moyo • David Keen • Dead Aid • Development Aid Confronts Politics • Diane de Gramont • Filip Reyntjens • Henning Melber • Hilary Taylor • Human Growth and Development • humanitarian action and ethics • james smith • Matt Andrews • Paul Collier • Peter Gill • The Bottom Billion • The Challenge for Africa • The End of Development • The Limits of Institutional Reform in Development • The Rise of Africa's Middle Class • The Tyranny of Experts • Thomas Carothers • Tobias Hagmann • Today We Drop Bombs, Tomorrow We Build Bridges • Wangari Maathai • William Easterly • Working with the Grain
• ISBN-10: 1-78360-936-2 / 1783609362
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78360-936-9 / 9781783609369