Transforming Development

by Freedman, Jim

• ISBN13: 9780802080516
• ISBN10: 0802080510
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

Foreign aid is now known more for its failures than its successes, leading to claims in academic and policy circles that foreign aid has outlived its usefulness. Instead of foreseeing the end of foreign, these essays show how it might be restored.

Author Biography

JIM FREEDMAN is on leave from the University of Western Ontario, serving as an analyst in the Office of the Iraq Programme at the United Nations in New York.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction: Aid at the Forks	3	(10)
Jim Freedman
Part One: The Canadian Context	13	(48)
Canadian Aid: A Mixed Record and an Uncertain Future	15	(22)
David R. Morrison
Alleviating Global Poverty or Enhancing Security: Competing Rationales for Canadian Development Assistance	37	(24)
Cranford Pratt
Part Two: Conditionality and Freedom	61	(38)
International Trade as the Answer to World Poverty: Is Foreign Aid Obsolete?	63	(19)
Albert Berry
External Conditionality, Local Ownership, and Development	82	(17)
Gerry Helleiner
Part Three: Beyond Donor Agencies	99	(36)
The Death and Rebirth of International Economic Cooperation	101	(13)
Keith Griffin
NGOs: Crisis and Opportunity in the New World Order	114	(21)
Ian Smillie
Part Four: Foreign Assistance and Globalization	135	(34)
Private Markets and Social Equity in a Post-Aid World	137	(16)
Roy Culpeper
The Small, the Big, and the Ugly	153	(16)
Jonathan S. Barker
Part Five: The Pay-offs of Social Capital	169	(40)
Hard Pay-offs from Soft Resources: Transforming Irrigation System Performance in Sri Lanka	173	(19)
Norman Uphoff
A Case for Equity	192	(17)
Jim Freedman
Part Six: Democratizing Research	209	(26)
Social Research as an Agent of Social Transformation	211	(11)
Marie France Labrecque
Rethinking Participation, Empowerment, and Development from a Gender Perspective	222	(13)
Jane L. Parpart
Part Seven: Food and Information	235	(34)
The Decline and Possible Redemption of Food Aid	237	(18)
Susan Horton
Anne Germain
Communications and Development: Challenges of the New Information and Communication Technologies	255	(14)
Edna F. Einsiedel
Melissa P. Innes
Conclusion	269	(6)
Jim Freedman
References	275	(16)
Contributors	291