Too Much Aid Not Enough Help

by Gibson, Ken

• ISBN13: 9781856077125
• ISBN10: 1856077128
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-20
• Publisher: Columba Pr

Summary

In this radically different look at aid, an unlikely author ¿ the Chief Executive of a leading NGO ¿ suggests that people like him should be at the forefront in showing that aid is not achieving many of its supposed objectives, because all ¿aid¿ is not the same. The vast bulk of aid is delivered by governments to other governments or through international bodies. Such aid is often delivered with conditions attached. These conditions, as this well researched book shows, often make the donor richer and the poor poorer! A picture that is in stark contrast to the fact that for decades aid was presented as pure benevolence. Aid can and has delivered some very significant results. But the current ¿Aid¿ régime often facilitates corruption and ultimately makes the poor poorer. The voices of the ¿aid community¿ remain silent, afraid that all aid will be perceived as the same and the good projects will be rejected along with the bad.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 7
Introduction	p. 10
Global Poverty and Inequality	p. 20
The Donors	p. 34
The Recipients	p. 62
A History of Aid	p. 75
Aid, Economic Growth and the Creation of Poverty	p. 104
The Macroeconomic Effects of Aid	p. 129
Recommendations for Meaningful Change	p. 143
References	p. 160
Acronyms used in this book	p. 167
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