How the aid industry works : the politics and practice of international development / Arjan de Haan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haan, Arjan de, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International economic relations.

Economic assistance--Developing countries.

Economic assistance.

Economic assistance--International cooperation.

Development economics.

Developing countries--Foreign economic relations.

Developing countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 230 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colorado : Kumarian Press, 2023.

Summary:

International development assistance--what Arjan de Haan calls the aid industry--continues to be critical for overcoming the world's development challenges, perhaps more so than ever given the global realities of climate change and the Covid pandemic. But how does this industry actually work? What practices does it follow, and to what effect? De Haan addresses these questions, providing a concise introduction to the business of development. This new edition reflects fifteen years of increasing complexity in the aid industry: heightened polarized debates about appropriate approaches; the involvement of new donors, such as China; adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals; the blending of public- and private-sector investment; tensions among charitable, political, and commercial considerations. The list goes on. De Haan incorporates these factors in a succinct overview that is an ideal introduction for students encountering the subject of development for the first time, as well as a handy overview for development practitioners.

"A concise introduction to the business of development"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

copyright page

Contents

Tables and Figures

Preface

Ch 1- Why Is Aid Contested?

Box 1.1 The Sustainable Development Goals

International Commitment to Increase Aid

The Arguments to Reduce and Abolish Aid

Box 1.2 Five Decades of Reports on Increasing Development Aid

The Case to Reform Aid

Foreign Policy, Trade, and Other Policies Can Matter More Than Aid

Why Are Views on the Aid Industry So Different?

Overview of the Book

Notes

Ch 2- Defining the Aid Industry

Official Development Assistance: Definition and Trends

Figure 2.1 Net ODA, 1960-2020 (constant 2020 US millions)

Table 2.1 Countries' Contributions to Total ODA (net)

Table 2.2 Net ODA Provided per Donor Country, as Percentage of GNI, 1970-2016

Figure 2.2 Types of Financial Flows from DAC Countries

Table 2.3 ODA Flows by Donor Type, 2019 (US millions)

Table 2.4 ODA by Sector (US millions)

The Allocation of Aid and Its Drivers

Bilateral Aid Agencies

Table 2.5 Main Donors' ODA Flow to Recipient Countries, by Economic Development Status

Table 2.6 Driving Forces of Bilateral Aid Programs

World Bank and IMF

Table 2.7 World Bank Group Institutions' Financing (commitments, US millions)

Multilateral Agencies

Nongovernmental Organizations

Box 2.1 Oxfam UK and Elsewhere-from Relief to Development to Advocacy

Box 2.2 The Jubilee Debt Campaign and Its Impact

Box 2.3 NGOs and Governments as Adversaries

The Growth of Private Philanthropy

Ch 3- Can the Aid Industry Let Go?

Comprehensive Frameworks at World Bank and the UN

Box 3.1 Results-Based Management and Programming

Box 3.2 Donor Frameworks and the Uganda Experience

Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers

Aid Effectiveness and Paris Consensus

Figure 3.1 Paris Declaration Pyramid.

Program and Sector Approaches

Global Partnerships and Vertical Initiatives

Dilemmas and Trade-Offs in Aid Delivery

Ch 4- The Evolution of Development Studies

Where Are Aid and International Development Studied?

Aid and Development: Theoretical and Disciplinary Perspectives

Box 4.1 The Debate on Poverty Analysis and Development Studies Disciplines

Development Studies in the 1950s and 1960s: Optimism, Kick-Starting Economies

The 1970s: The Short Era of Redistribution

Washington Consensus and the Lost Development Decade

Box 4.2 User Fees, Social Spending

1990s: Poverty and Governance Take Center Stage

Box 4.3 Human Development Index

The MDGs and SDGs Period: Convergence in Development Studies?

Continued Questions and Challenges for Development Studies

Ch 5- Implementing Development Projects

Project Management

Figure 5.1 Project Cycle

Technical Cooperation and Capacity Development

Box 5.1 Technical Assistance for the Electricity Industry-Example of Orissa, India

Box 5.2 ILO Project to Prevent Trafficking in Girls and Young Women for Labour Exploitation Within China (CP-TING Project)

Infrastructure Projects

Integrated Rural Development, Sustainable Livelihoods, and Productivity

Box 5.3 IFAD Focus on the Poorest and Criticism of This Approach: Orissa Tribal Empowerment and Livelihoods Programme

Figure 5.2 The Livelihoods Framework

Box 5.4 Poor Rural Communities Development Project in China

Microfinance

Social Investments: From Social Funds to Social Protection

Critique of Project Approaches

Ch 6- The Importance of Governance

Structural Adjustment Lending

Box 6.1 Orissa Socio-Economic Development Program

Conditionalities

Good Governance

Table 6.1 Agencies' Instruments to Analyze Governance

The Role of Politics in Aid Modalities.

Continued Dilemmas in the Provision of Aid

Ch 7- Cross-Cutting Themes

Gender and Development: Advocacy and Mainstreaming

Box 7.1 Gender Budget Initiatives

Participation

Box 7.2 Pro-Poor Participatory Budgeting: Porto Alegre, Brazil

Rights-Based Approaches to Development

Development, Environment, and How Climate Change Impacts the Aid Industry

The Challenges of Mainstreaming

Figure 7.1 How Is the 100 Billion Climate Finance Disbursed?

Ch 8- What Works? And How Do We Know?

Box 8.1 Definition of Terms in the Field of Evaluation

Evaluating Projects

Table 8.1 Principles and Examples of Evaluation in Types of Aid Approaches

Box 8.2 Project Evaluation Example: Asian Development Bank's Microfinance in the Philippines

How to Understand Impact and the RCT Revolution

Evaluating Programs

Box 8.3 Poverty and Social Impact Analysis

Aid and Economic Growth

Conclusion

Ch 9- Ongoing Challenges

Has Aid Become Irrelevant?

Is Aid About Poverty Reduction or Development?

Numbers of Donors Continue to Increase

Need Versus Capacity

Aid Is and Always Has Been Political

Can the Industry Decolonize?

List of Acronyms

References

Index

About the Book

Blank Page.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-224) and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Haan, Arjan de. How the aid industry works

ISBN:

9781685852801

9781955055987

OCLC:

1372399811