Aiding recovery? : the crisis of aid in chronic political emergencies / Joanna Macrae.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Macrae, Joanna, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic assistance--Developing countries--Case studies.

Economic assistance.

Public health.

Developing countries.

Public health--Developing countries--Case studies.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 191 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Crisis of aid in chronic political emergencies

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Zed Books ; London : In association with Overseas Development Institute ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave, [2001]

Summary:

In this important study of aid policy, Joanna Macrae argues that the disintegration of state authority and civil order has created acute problems in precisely those countries that need aid most. In a number of developing countries--including Cambodia, Uganda, and Kosovo--international aid no longer assumes the existence of stable, sovereign states capable of making policy. Instead, the major donor agencies have usually responded by suspending development aid and substituting some type of emergency aid or relief assistance. Now, as she shows, there are calls to make relief more development-oriented, and more focused on the underlying conflicts which cause these crises.

Contents:

2 Aid, War and the State: 1945-89 7

Decolonisation, developmentalism and the invention of aid, 1945-70 9

Developmentalism and the economic crisis of the 1970s 13

Adjusting to quasi-states: aid and the Cold War thaw 15

3 Aid Beyond the State: The Emergence of a 'New' Aid Orthodoxy 24

The need for a new aid paradigm 24

The evolution of a new orthodoxy: relief, development and war 31

The new orthodoxy: a preliminary critique 37

4 The Context of Recovery: An Overview of War and its Impact in Cambodia, Ethiopia and Uganda 48

War, the state and international relations in Cambodia 50

War, the state and international relations in Ethiopia 1974-91 53

War, the state and international relations in Uganda 58

Public health: needs and response in quasistates 61

5 The Legitimacy Dilemma: Aid in a Vacuum 73

In search of a constitution for decision-making: Cambodia 74

International aid for health sector rehabilitation in Ethiopia 87

International aid for health sector rehabilitation in Uganda 103

Different folks, same strokes: issues and implications 110

6 The Sustainability Dilemma 120

Defining sustainability and its determinants 122

Public finance and international aid: the determinants of financial sustainability of the health sector in Cambodia, Ethiopia and Uganda 122

Investing in development? 132

Maintaining the myth: systems and strategies of rehabilitation planning 143

War, peace and politics: from 'post'-conflict transition to chronic political emergencies 155

'Linking relief and development' aid: towards a political analysis of aid in conflict 158

Operational implications 162

A healthy peace? Lessons for public health policy 164.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-185) and index.

ISBN:

1856499405

1856499413

OCLC:

45791382