Development Delusions and Contradictions : An Anatomy of the Foreign Aid Industry

by David Sims

Part I Inside the Donor World -- 1. Background: A Sketch of the Development Industry -- 2. The Imperative to Spend -- 3. Product Development -- 4. Control, Compliance, and More Control -- 5. Procurement -- 6. Numbers, Indicators, and Technical Objectivity -- 7. Chronic Ills of the Industry -- 8. Acts of Congregation -- 9. Texts and Documentation -- 10. Herd Instinct -- 11. Plus Ça Change -- 12. Responses to Covid-19 -- Part II: When the West Meets the Rest -- 13. Background: Governments in the Rest -- 14. Donor Overload -- 15. Partnerships? -- 16. Country Ownership -- 17. Pay Scales -- 18. The Rest Strikes Back -- 19. Blind Support for the Private Sector -- 20. Informality -- Part III: Conclusions -- 21. Summing Up -- 22. Peering into the Future.

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Year of publication:	2023
Authors:	Sims, David
Publisher:	2023.: Cham : Springer International Publishing 2023.: Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Subject:	Global development gap \| Foreign aid \| Development funding \| International development system \| Economic development pathways \| Economic power \| Aid responses to COVID-19 \| Entwicklungshilfe \| Development aid \| Entwicklung \| Economic development \| Welt \| World \| Entwicklungsländer \| Developing countries \| Coronavirus \| Entwicklungspolitik \| Development policy \| Entwicklungsfinanzierung \| Development finance \| AIDS

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (XXVIII, 397 p.)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
ISBN:	978-3-031-17770-5 ; 978-3-031-17769-9 ; 978-3-031-17771-2 ; 978-3-031-17772-9
Other identifiers:	10.1007/978-3-031-17770-5 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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