The Development Dance (eBook)

How Donors and Recipients Negotiate the Delivery of Foreign Aid

Haley J. Swedlund (Autor)

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2017
202 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
9781501712425 (ISBN)

Infos

In a book full of directly applicable lessons for policymakers, Haley J. Swedlund explores why foreign aid is delivered in different ways at different times, and why various approaches prove to be politically unsustainable. She finds that no aid-delivery mechanism has yet resolved commitment problems in the donor-recipient relationship; bargaining compromises break down and have to be renegotiated; frustration grows; new ways of delivering aid gain traction over existing practices; and the dance resumes.

Swedlund draws on hundreds of interviews with key decision makers representing both donor agencies and recipient governments, policy and archival documents in Ghana, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda, and an original survey of top-level donor officials working across twenty countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. This wealth of data informs Swedlund's analysis of fads and fashions in the delivery of foreign aid and the interaction between effectiveness and aid delivery. The central message of The Development Dance is that if we want to know whether an aid delivery mechanism is likely to be sustained over the long term, we need to look at whether it induces credible commitments from both donor agencies and recipient governments over the long term.

Autor

Haley J. Swedlund is Assistant Professor in the Nijmegen School of Management at Radboud University.

Inhalt

List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
1. The Development Dance
2. It Takes Two to Tango
3. Studying the Dance
4. May I Have This Dance?
5. A Halfhearted Shuffle
6. Tracking a Craze
7. The Future of the Development Dance and Why We Should Care
Appendixes
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 2 b&w line drawings, 3 graphs
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: foreign aid, development assistance, donor-recipient negotiations, aid delivery mechanism, aid effectiveness, donor-recipient relationship
• ISBN-13: 9781501712425 / 9781501712425