Less pretension : development policy in times of globalization /
On some levels, the accepted role of development aid has been supplanted by the increase of individual remittances and foreign direct investment, as well as by policies that focus on issues such as climate, migration, financial stability, knowledge, trade, and security in order to increase opportuni...
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Amsterdam University Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Development aid in a changing context
- 2. The development aid split
- 3. Understanding development
- 4. Measuring development
- 5. Designing development aid
- 6. The task ahead
- 7. Being more specific : professionalizing aid
- 8. A broader perspective : looking beyond aid
- 9. Conclusion.
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Development aid in a changing context
- 2. development aid split
- 2.1. Two basic motives for development aid
- 2.2. moral assignment
- 2.3. Self-interest
- 2.4. Interdependencies
- 2.5. How to combine big and small
- 3. Understanding development
- 3.1. Defining development
- 3.2. Other starting points
- 3.3. Effective governments and path-dependent trajectories
- 3.3.1. Rediscovering the state
- 3.3.2. Antecedents and variety
- 3.3.3. What about Africa?
- 3.4. Political institutions
- 3.5. Social fabric
- 3.6. Own development paths
- 4. Measuring development
- 4.1. Is development taking place?
- 4.2. What does aid contribute?
- 4.3. Should we then focus on the micro level?
- 4.4. Does aid help?
- 5. Designing development aid
- 5.1. Narrowing down: development aid becomes poverty reduction
- 5.2.
