Catalysing Development?
A Debate on Aid
Published on 4. February 2009
232 pages
978-1-4051-3861-1 (ISBN)
Description
This volume presents a state-of-the-art debate on the controversialtopic of development aid.
* The contributors are all experts in the field of internationaldevelopment.
* Presents some challenging conclusions about the role that aidplays in catalysing, or stifling, development.
* Represents a wide range of different analyticalperspectives.
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Jan P. Pronk was Minister for Development Co-operation of the Netherlands from 1974 to 1977, and from 1989 to 1998, and Minister for Environment from 1998 to 2002. He now holds a Chair in the Theory and Practice of International Development at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague.
Content
Preface from the Editors of Development and Change.
1. Aid as a Catalyst Jan P. Pronk.
2. Unpacking Aid James K. Boyce.
3. Aid as a Flight Forward Louis Emmerij.
4. Aid is an Unreliable Joystick Gus Edgren.
5. Development Goals, Governance and Capacity Building: Aid as aCatalyst John Degnbol-Martinussen.
6. Age of Reverse Aid: Neoliberalism as Catalyst of RegressionJames Petras and Henry Veltmeyer.
7. Aid, Conditionality and Development Ajit Singh.
8. The Effectiveness of Policy Conditionality: Eight CountryExperiences A. Geske Dijkstra.
9. Aid and the Geopolitics of the Post-Colonial: CriticalReflections on New Labour's Overseas Development StrategyDavid Slater and Morag Bell.
10. Good Governance and Aid: Selectivity Criteria in DevelopmentAssistance Wil Hout.
11. International Development Targets and Official DevelopmentAssistance Santosh Mehrotra.
12. Aid Effectiveness and Policy Ownership RehmanSobhan.
13. It is Possible to Just Give Money to the Poor JosephHanlonn Pronk.
14. Aid as a Catalyst: A Rejoinder Jan P. Pronk.
