Development delusions and contradictions : an anatomy of the foreign aid industry / David Sims.
Sims, David E., 1946- author.
2023
HC60
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Title Development delusions and contradictions : an anatomy of the foreign aid industry / David Sims.
Author Sims, David E., 1946- author.
ISBN 9783031177705 (electronic bk.)
3031177703 (electronic bk.)
303117769X
9783031177699
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17770-5
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-17770-5 doi
Call Number HC60
Dewey Decimal Classification 338.91
338.91 OCoLC
Summary This book analyses the shortcomings of the Western development aid programme. Through exploring the evolution of aid over more than seven decades, development is examined as an industry with a variety of motives and actors. The driving forces and dynamics in the relationship between aid and economic development are highlighted in relation to faulty development structures and misaligned aims. With a particular focus on Egypt, radical questions are posed on how global aid and development can be improved, including how it can respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. This book aims to present an alternative aid framework to help overcome the dysfunctionality of the current international development system. It will be of interest to researchers and policymakers working within development economics and development policy. David Sims is a development consultant who has worked with a number of international agencies, including the European Commission, World Bank, and UN.
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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 Ca 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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