Catalysing Development?

A Debate on Aid

Jan P. Pronk et. al. Catalysing Development? A Debate on Aid Blackwell Publishing, Malden/Oxford 2004, pp 213.

Contents

Notes on Contributors
vii
Preface
xi
1
Aid as a Catalyst
Jan P. Pronk
1
2
Unpacking Aid
James K. Boyce
21
3
Aid as a Flight Forward
Louis Emmerij
29
4
Aid is an Unreliable Joystick
Gud Edgren
43
5
Development Goals, Governance and Capacity Building:
Aid as a Catalyst
John Degnbol-Martinussen
51
6
Age of Reverse Aid: Neoliberalism as Catalyst of Regression
James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer
63
7
Aid, Conditionality and Development
Ajit Singh
77
8
The effectiveness of Policy Conditionality: Eight Country Experiences
A. Geske Dijkstra
89
9
Aid and the Geopolitics of the Post-Colonial: Critical Reflections on New Labour's Overseas Development Strategy
David Slater and Morag Bell
117
10
Good Governance and Aid: Selectivity Criteria in Development Assistance
Wil Hout
143
11
International Development Targets and Official Development Assistance
Santosh Mehrotra
161
12
Aid Effectiveness and Policy Ownership
Rehman Sobhan
171
13
It is Possible to Just Give Money to the Poor
Joshep Hanlon
181
14
Aid as a Catalyst: A Rejoinder
Jan P. Pronk
201
Index
209

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