The aid effect : giving and governing in international development / edited by David Mosse and David Lewis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mosse, David.

Lewis, D. J.

Series:

Anthropology, culture, and society

Anthropology, culture and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic assistance--Developing countries--Congresses.

Economic assistance.

Economic development--Sociological aspects.

Developing countries.

Economic development--International cooperation--Congresses.

Economic development.

Economic development--International cooperation.

Economic development--Sociological aspects--Congresses.

International economic relations--Congresses.

International economic relations.

Developing countries--Foreign economic relations.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

232 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; Ann Arbor : Pluto, 2005.

Summary:

International development today merges the goals of neoliberal reform, democratisation and poverty reduction within a framework of 'global governance'. What does this mean for aid relationships? What influence do donors and self-governing financial institutions like the IMF and the World Bank have over nation states? Does the emphasis on local ownership, participation and good governance in fact conceal an era of greater external intervention in the internal affairs of developing countries? What perspectives, interests or conflicts are hidden behind official aid policy discourses?

In this book, experienced and engaged anthropologists examine the social processes and systematic effects of a new 'global aid architecture' that has moved beyond projects to macro-level instruments of development. They show how the fieldwork methodology that is anthropology's strength is a source of rare insight into aid relationships, and the personal histories, bureaucratic strategies and communities of expertise through which global policy is framed and negotiated.

Contents:

1 Global Governance and the Ethnography of International Aid / David Mosse 1

2 Good Governance as Technology: Towards an Ethnography of the Bretton Woods Institutions / Gerhard Anders 37

3 Timing, Scale and Style: Capacity as Governmentality in Tanzania / Jeremy Gould 61

4 The Genealogy of the 'Good Governance' and 'Ownership' Agenda at the Dutch Ministry of Development Cooperation / Jilles van Gastel, Monique Nuijten 85

5 Whose Aid? The Case of the Bolivian Elections Project / Rosalind Eyben, Rosario Leon 106

6 Interconnected and Inter-infected: DOTS and the Stabilisation of the Tuberculosis Control Programme in Nepal / Ian Harper 126

7 The Worshippers of Rules? Defining Right and Wrong in Local Participatory Project Applications in South-Eastern Estonia / Aet Annist 150

8 Unstating 'the Public': An Ethnography of Reform in an Urban Water Utility in South India / Karen Coelho 171

9 Disjuncture and Marginality - Towards a New Approach to Development Practice / Rob van den Berg, Philip Quarles van Ufford 196.

Notes:

Originates from a conference held at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London between 26 and 28 September 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0745323871

0745323863

OCLC:

62472375