More Than Altruism (eBook)

The Politics of Private Foreign Aid

Brian H. Smith (Autor)

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2014
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6095-1 (ISBN)

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As government officials and political activists are becoming increasingly aware, international nonprofit agencies have an important political dimension: although not self-serving, these private voluntary organizations (PVOs) and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) seek social changes of which many of their financial contributors are unaware. As PVOs and NGOs receive increasing subsidies from their home governments in the United States, Canada, and Europe, they are moving away from short-term relief commitments in developing countries and toward longer-term goals in health, education, training, and small-scale production. Showing that European and Canadian NGOs focus more on political change as part of new development efforts than do their U.S. counterparts, Brian Smith presents the first major comparative study of the political aspect of PVOs and NGOs. Smith emphasizes the paradoxes in the private-aid system, both in the societies that send aid and in those that receive it. Pointing out that international nonprofit agencies are in some instances openly critical of nation-state interests, he asks how these agencies can function in a foreign-aid network intended as a support for those same interests. He concludes that compromises throughout the private-aid networkand some secrecymake it possible for institutions with different agendas to work together. In the future, however, serious conflicts may develop with donors and nation states.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: activism • Advocacy group • Aftermath of World War II • Aid • American Friends Service Committee • Asian Americans • Bishop (Catholic Church) • British Union of Fascists • Bundestag • CAFOD • Charles de Gaulle • Christian Aid • Church World Service • Cimade • Clement J. Zablocki • Collective agreement • Comparative Advantage • Counterpart fund • Credibility gap • curtailment • day care • developed country • development aid • Die Welt • economic interventionism • economic liberalism • economic recovery • Economics • Ecuador • Ecumenism • education in france • electricity • Employment • Energy development • Famine in India • Free Religious Association • Fundraising • Green Revolution • Gush Emunim • harassment • Humanitarian aid • hunger strike • Immigration • Immigration Policy • Inter-American Foundation • Intermediation • International Committee of the Red Cross • International Voluntary Services • Jean Baudrillard • Job Security • Latin America • Liberation Theology • Lucian Pye • Marshall Plan • Mennonite Central Committee • military aid • Millenarianism • Moshe Dayan • Negotiation • Neil Kinnock • New Nation (United States) • Non-governmental organization • Nonprofit Organization • North Africa • oxfam • Party System • Peace Corps • Policy • political agenda • Power balance • private foundation • private hospital • Protest • Public International Law • Random House • resistance movement • Rhodesia • Salvadoran Civil War • secrecy • Social Class • Southall • Steven Best • Strategic alliance • Subculture • Subsidy • Tax • Tax Reform • Telephone interview • Theoretician (Marxism) • third world • Total War • trabajo • Unitarian Universalist Service Committee • United Nations Economic and Social Council • United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration • UNRWA • War bond • welfare • West Bromwich • West Germany
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6095-4 / 1400860954
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6095-1 / 9781400860951