Catalysing Development? A Debate on Aid

by Pronk, Jan P.

• ISBN13: 9781405121194
• ISBN10: 140512119X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-11-12
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This volume presents a state-of-the-art debate on the controversial topic of development aid. The contributors are all experts in the field of international development. Presents some challenging conclusions about the role that aid plays in catalysing, or stifling, development. Represents a wide range of different analytical perspectives.

Author Biography

Jan P. Pronk was Minister for Development Co-operation of the Netherlands from 1974 to 1977, and from 1989 to 1998, and Minister for Environment from 1998 to 2002. He now holds a Chair in the Theory and Practice of International Development at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	vii
Preface	xi
Aid as a Catalyst	1	(20)
Jan P. Pronk
Unpacking Aid	21	(8)
James K. Boyce
Aid as a Flight Forward	29	(14)
Louis Emmerij
Aid is an Unreliable Joystick	43	(8)
Gud Edgren
Development Goals, Governance and Capacity Building: Aid as a Catalyst	51	(12)
John Degnbol-Martinussen
Age of Reverse Aid: Neoliberalism as Catalyst of Regression	63	(14)
James Petras
Henry Veltmeyer
Aid, Conditionality and Development	77	(12)
Ajit Singh
The Effectiveness of Policy Conditionality: Eight Country Experiences	89	(28)
A. Geske Dijkstra
Aid and the Geopolitics of the Post-Colonial: Critical Reflections on New Labour's Overseas Development Strategy	117	(26)
David Slater
Morag Bell
Good Governance and Aid: Selectivity Criteria in Development Assistance	143	(18)
Wil Hout
International Development Targets and Official Development Assistance	161	(10)
Santosh Mehrotra
Aid Effectiveness and Policy Ownership	171	(10)
Rehman Sobhan
It is Possible to Just Give Money to the Poor	181	(20)
Joseph Hanlon
Aid as a Catalyst: A Rejoinder	201	(8)
Jan P. Pronk
Index	209