The Law of Development Cooperation
A Comparative Analysis of the World Bank, the EU and Germany
1st Edition
Published on 23. October 2013
978-1-107-45372-2 (ISBN)
Description
Development interventions are agreed by states and international organisations which administer public development funds of huge proportions. They have done so with debatable success, but, unlike the good governance of recipients, the rules applying to donors have hitherto received little scrutiny. This analysis of the normative structures and conceptual riddles of development co-operation argues that development co-operation is increasingly structured by legal rules and is therefore no longer merely a matter of politics, economics or ethics. By focusing on the rules of development co-operation, it puts forward a new perspective on the institutional law dealing with the process, instruments and organisation of this co-operation. Placing the law in its theoretical and political context, it provides the first comparative study on the laws of foreign aid as a central field of global public policy and asks how accountability, autonomy and human rights can be preserved while combating poverty.
Reviews / Votes
'The Law of Development Cooperation can justly be celebrated as the 'state of art' of legal reasoning. Every single page of the book is stimulating and full of insights valuable to both development practitioners and legal scholars alike. On the conceptual level, the construction of a multi-layered legal field of development cooperation from an institutional perspective that focuses on the legal norms of donors seems highly plausible. It presents academics with a rich yet workable area for further research.' Giedre Jokubauskaite, European Journal of International LawMore details
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Language
German
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
7,69 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-107-45372-2 (9781107453722)
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Philipp Dann
The Law of Development Cooperation
A Comparative Analysis of the World Bank, the EU and Germany
Book
11/2013
Cambridge University Press
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Persons
Philipp Dann is a professor at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, where he holds the Chair for Public and Comparative Law.
Content
Introduction; Part I. Institutional and Intellectual History of Development Co-operation: 1. Formative years; 2. Years of transformation; Part II. Constitutional Foundations of the Law of Development Co-operation: 3. Institutions and legal framework; 4. Principles of the law of development co-operation; Part III. Administrative Law of Development Co-operation: 5. Programming the transfer of ODA; 6. Transferring ODA through project aid; 7. Transferring ODA through budget support; 8. Transferring ODA through results-based financing; 9. Accountability in ODA transfers; Conclusions and future prospects.
