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Development cooperation in a fractured global order : an arduous transition / Francisco Sagasti and Gonzalo Alcalde.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sagasti, Francisco R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic development.
- Economic assistance.
- World politics.
- Developing countries--Economic conditions.
- Developing countries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (208 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Ottawa : International Development Research Centre, c1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The turbulence the world is experiencing approaching the 21st century is not just because of the end of the Cold War, the end of a Golden Age, or the beginning of the Information Revolution. Fundamentally, it signals the end of the Baconian Age, which began almost 400 years ago when Sir Francis Bacon set out his concepts of progress and development, concepts that have shaped human endeavours ever since. What does the end of the Baconian Age mean to the future of development cooperation? What does it mean for the lives of the world's poor and hungry? This book traces the evolution of development cooperation to its impending doom, examines the main trends and changes in the international environment, and explores the future of international development assistance. It will surely stimulate discussion and debate amongst policymakers, academics, practitioners, and students of development worldwide.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- The development-cooperation experiment
- A changed context for development finance and international cooperation
- Chapter 2 The Evolution of Development Cooperation
- The development experience: concepts and insights
- Four decades of institutional arrangements for development cooperation
- Concluding remarks
- Chapter 3 A New Context
- International security in a postbipolar world
- Growing economic and financial interdependence
- Persistent inequalities and economic uncertainty
- Social conditions
- Environmental sustainability
- Culture, religion, and ethical concerns
- Governance and democracy
- The knowledge explosion and the knowledge divide
- Chapter 4 The Emerging Fractured Global Order
- Interpretations of globalization: an overview
- A fractured global order
- The knowledge fracture and the two civilizations
- Chapter 5 Transformation in the 1990s
- Resource flows in the 1980s and 1990s: the ODA squeeze
- Questioning development cooperation and the role of multilateral institutions
- New demands for development cooperation
- Rising to the challenge? Responses and initiatives
- Chapter 6 The Shape of Things to Come
- Summary overview
- Enduring and changing motivations for development finance and international cooperation
- The shape of things to come: development-cooperation themes, organizations, and resources
- Concluding remarks: an arduous transition
- Appendix 1 Development Cooperation and Conflict Prevention
- Appendix 2 Acronyms and Abbreviations
- References.
- Notes:
- "June 1999"--Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-197).
- ISBN:
- 1-280-84981-9
- 9786610849819
- 1-55250-276-7
- OCLC:
- 70825242
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