Transforming Development: Foreign Aid for a Changing World - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0802041930 ISBN 13 : 9780802041937

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2000

Synopsis

The practice of rich countries providing financial assistance to developing countries has become increasingly controversial. Foreign aid is now characterized more by its failures than its successes, making foreign assistance budgets easy targets for politicians. In academic and policy circles the claim is made that foreign aid has outlived its usefulness. The original essays in Transforming Development take a more optimistic view, and instead of foreseeing the end of foreign aid, show how it might be revived.

The essays in this volume argue that foreign aid is, first and foremost, a humanitarian enterprise. The contributors suggest ways to reform the practice of development assistance including new approaches to development financing and novel strategies for increasing the effectiveness of foreign aid, maintaining that development assistance must continue to receive donor support.

This forward-looking collection is an ideal text for undergraduate and graduate courses in international development and a valuable resource for practitioners and policy-makers in the field.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jim Freedman is professor emeritus in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Western University

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0802041930
• ISBN 13: 9780802041937
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 152
• Éditeur: Freedman Jim
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible