Aid and influence : patronage, power and politics

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Aid and influence : patronage, power and politics

Stephen Browne

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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- This book responds directly to the rise of China and the role of covid-19, which has opened up a new battle ground for aid as a tool for political influence. - The US and the UK have never been so open about the underlying politics behind aid, with the US withdrawing from many global commitments and the UK recently combining the foreign office with the department for development. -Written by Stephen Browne, a prominent practitioner with over 30 years experience at the UN, co-director of the Future United Nations Development System (FUNDS) project, Senior Fellow of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, Graduate Center, City University of New York, and visiting lecturer at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

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  • 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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