How Do We Help?: The Free Market in Development Aid - Couverture souple

Develtere, Patrick

 
9789058679024: How Do We Help?: The Free Market in Development Aid
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 9058679020 ISBN 13 : 9789058679024
Editeur : Leuven University Press, 2012

Synopsis

The balance sheet of 50 years of development aid. Over the past 50 years the West has invested over 3000 billion euro in development aid and already tackled many problems. Now more and more countries and organisations present themselves on the development aid scene, including China, India, and foundations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Companies, trade unions, co-operatives, schools and towns set up their own projects in remote African regions. But can each and everybody become a development worker? Who decides what is acceptable and what is not? What is the role of the developing countries themselves? Who can tell what is good aid and what is bad aid? Is it a free market allowing everybody to do what he wants? A market without rules, with a lot of competition and little cooperation? This book draws up the balance sheet of 50 years of development aid and provides an overview of all relevant players, of opportunities and obstacles, of successes and failure. It details numerous examples and information on development projects from all over the world. Readers may be tempted to get involved in development aid, but they will also be more cautious than before.

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À propos de l?auteur

Patrick Develtere has been involved in development aid over 25 years. He teaches development cooperation at the University of Leuven. He is also the president of the Belgian Christian Workers' Movement.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

The balance sheet of 50 years of development aid. Over the past 50 years the West has invested over 3000 billion euro in development aid and already tackled many problems. Now more and more countries and organisations present themselves on the development aid scene, including China, India, and foundations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Companies, trade unions, co-operatives, schools and towns set up their own projects in remote African regions. But can each and everybody become a development worker? Who decides what is acceptable and what is not? What is the role of the developing countries themselves? Who can tell what is good aid and what is bad aid? Is it a free market allowing everybody to do what he wants? A market without rules, with a lot of competition and little cooperation? This book draws up the balance sheet of 50 years of development aid and provides an overview of all relevant players, of opportunities and obstacles, of successes and failure. It details numerous examples and information on development projects from all over the world. Readers may be tempted to get involved in development aid, but they will also be more cautious than before.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Leuven University Press
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9058679020
ISBN 13 
9789058679024
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
264
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