Rethinking Canadian aid / edited by Stephen Brown, Molly den Heyer and David R. Black.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stephen Brown

Contributor:

Brown, Stephen, 1967- editor.

Den Heyer, Molly, 1972- editor.

Black, David R., editor.

Series:

Studies in international development and globalization.

Studies in international development and globalization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic assistance, Canadian.

Canada--Economic policy.

Canada.

Canada--Foreign economic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 339 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press

Ottawa, Ontarion : University of Ottawa Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This book contributes to a "rethinking" of Canadian aid on four levels. First, by undertaking a collective rethink of the foundations of Canadian aid. Second, through an analysis of how the Canadian government is rethinking Canadian aid, with a greater focus on the Americas as well as specific countries and themes (such as mothers, children and youth, and fragile states); increased involvement of the private sector (particularly Canadian mining companies); and greater emphasis on self-interest. Third, by rethinking where Canadian aid is or should be heading, with recommendations for improved.

In 2013, the government abolished the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), which had been Canada's flagship foreign aid agency for decades, and transferred its functions to the newly renamed Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD). As the government is rethinking Canadian aid and its relationship with other foreign policy and commercial objectives, the time is ripe to rethink Canadian aid more broadly. Edited by Stephen Brown, Molly den Heyer and David R. Black, this revised edition not only analyzes Canada's past development assistance, it also highlights important new opportunities in the context of the recent change in government. Designed to reach a variety of audiences, contributions by twenty scholars and experts in the field offer an incisive examination of Canada's record and initiatives in Canadian foreign aid, including its relatively recent emphasis on maternal and child health and on the extractive sector, as well as the longer-term engagement with state fragility. The portrait that emerges is a sobering one. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in Canada's changing role in the world.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: Why Rethink Canadian Aid?

Section I: Foundations of Ethics, Power and Bureaucracy

Chapter I: Humane Internationalism and the Malaise of Canadian Aid Policy

Chapter II: Refashioning Humane Internationalism in Twenty-First-Century Canada

Chapter III: Revisiting the Ethical Foundations of Aid and Development Policy from a Cosmopolitan Perspective

Chapter IV: Power and Policy: Lessons from Aid Effectiveness

Chapter V: Results, Risk, Rhetoric and Reality: The Need for Common Sense in Canada's Development Assistance

Section II: The Canadian Context and Motivations

Chapter VI: Mimicry and Motives: Canadian Aid Allocation in Longitudinal Perspective

Chapter VII: Continental Shift? Rethinking Canadian Aid to the Americas

Chapter VIII: Preventing, Substituting or Complementing the Use of Force? Development Assistance in Canadian Strategic Culture

Chapter IX: Why Aid? Canadian Perception of the Usefulness of Canadian Aid in an Era of Economic Uncertainty

Chapter X: The Management of Canadian Development Assistance: Ideology, Electoral Politics or Public Interest?

Section III: Canada's Role in International Development on Key Themes

Chapter XI: Gender Equality and the "Two CIDAs": Successes and Setbacks, 1976-2013

Chapter XII: From "Children-in-Development" to Social Age Mainstreaming in Canada's Development Policy and Programming? Practice, Prospects and Proposals

Chapter XIII: Canada's Fragile States Policy: What Have We Accomplished and Where Do We Go from Here?

Chapter XIV: Canada and Development in Other Fragile States: Moving beyond the "Afghanistan Model"

Chapter XV: Charity Begins at Home: The Extractive Sector as an Illustration of Changes and Continuities in the New De Facto Canadian Aid Policy.

Chapter XVI: Undermining Foreign Aid: The Extractive Sector and the Recommercialization of Canadian Development Assistance

Conclusion: Rethinking Canadian Development Cooperation - Towards Renewed Partnerships?

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

0-7766-2612-4

0-7766-2174-2

OCLC:

913977594