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Why We Lie About Aid
Development and the Messy Politics of Change
Why We Lie About Aid
Development and the Messy Politics of Change
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Foreign aid is about charity. International development is about technical fixes. At least that is what we, as donor publics, are constantly told. The result is a highly dysfunctional aid system which mistakes short-term results for long-term transformation and gets attacked across the political spectrum, with the right claiming we spend too much, and the left that we don't spend enough.
The reality, as Yanguas argues in this highly provocative book, is that aid isn't – or at least shouldn't be – about levels of spending, nor interventions shackled to vague notions of 'accountability' and 'ownership'. Instead, a different approach is possible, one that acknowledges aid as being about struggle, about taking sides, about politics. It is an approach that has been quietly applied by innovative development practitioners around the world, providing political coverage for local reformers to open up spaces for change. Drawing on a variety of convention-defying stories from a variety of countries – from Britain to the US, Sierra Leone to Honduras – Yanguas provides an eye-opening account of what we really mean when we talk about aid.
Table of Contents
1. The Theatrics of Aid Debates
2. The Banality of Certainty
3. The Ugly Politics of Change
4. The Limits of Donor Influence
5. The Paradoxes of Development Diplomacy
6. The Struggle of Thinking Politically
7. Understanding the Messy Politics of Change
Conclusion
Product details
| Published | Feb 15 2018 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 280 |
| ISBN | 9781783609345 |
| Imprint | Zed Books |
| Dimensions | 216 x 135 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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