Aid and influence : patronage, power and politics
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Aid and influence : patronage, power and politics
New York, NY : Routledge : earthscan from Routledge, 2022
2nd ed
- : pbk
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"First edition published by Earthscan in 2006" -- T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Summary: "This book turns the argument about aid effectiveness on its head. Since development assistance is inherently self-interested, a source of soft power, political manipulation and commercial opportunity, its real effectiveness could arguably be judged by the strength of donor influence and not by development impact. Its subjective nature means that its impact on development is often weak, mainly short-term and confined to limited and specific contexts. Aid as influence was prevalent during the Cold War era. The connection is equally strong in this century's newly bipolar world in which the contest is between western donors led by the USA, and China which is spending hundreds of billions of dollars on infrastructure as a means of influence in the global South. Influence permeates both bilateral and multilateral aid and in parallel with official aid, the rise of global philanthropy has seen it taken up by some of today's billionaires. The response by donors to the growing havoc caused by the three Cs - c
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内容説明
目次
- Preface: the birth of Bangladesh 1. Introduction
- Defining aid and its purposes 2. The rationale for aid 3. US aid 4. China aid 5. UK aid 6. Influence and multilateral aid 7. Influence through conditionality 8. Private aid and influence 9. Aiding fragile states 10. The future of aid
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