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Transforming Development: Foreign Aid for a Changing World

โœ Scribed by Jim Freedman (editor)

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Year
2000
Tongue
English
Leaves
304
Category
Library
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โœฆ Synopsis

Foreign aid is now known more for its failures than its successes, leading to claims in academic and policy circles that foreign aid has outlived its usefulness. Instead of foreseeing the end of foreign, these essays show how it might be restored.

โœฆ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Aid at the Forks
Part One: The Canadian Context
1. Canadian Aid: A Mixed Record and an Uncertain Future
2. Alleviating Global Poverty or Enhancing Security: Competing Rationales for Canadian Development Assistance
Part Two: Conditionality and Freedom
3. International Trade as the Answer to World Poverty: Is Foreign Aid Obsolete?
4. External Conditionality, Local Ownership, and Development
Part Three: Beyond Donor Agencies
5. The Death and Rebirth of International Economic Cooperation
6. NGOs: Crisis and Opportunity in the New World Order
Part Four: Foreign Assistance and Globalization
7. Private Markets and Social Equity in a Post-Aid World
8. The Small, the Big, and the Ugly
Part Five: The Pay-offs of Social Capital
9. Hard Pay-offs from Soft Resources: Transforming Irrigation System Performance in Sri Lanka
10. A Case for Equity
Part Six: Democratizing Research
11. Social Research as an Agent of Social Transformation
12. Rethinking Participation, Empowerment, and Development from a Gender Perspective
Part Seven: Food and Information
13. The Decline and Possible Redemption of Food Aid
14. Communications and Development: Challenges of the New Information and Communication Technologies
Conclusion
References
Contributors

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