Transforming Development : : Foreign Aid for a Changing World / / ed. by Jim Freedman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Barker, Jonathan S.,; Berry, Albert,; Culpeper, Roy,; Einsiedel, Edna F.,; Freedman, Jim,; Germain, Anne,; Griffin, Keith,; Helleiner, Gerry,; Horton, Susan,; Innes, Melissa P.,; Labrecque, Marie France,; Morrison, David R.,; Parpart, Jane L.,; Pratt, Cranford,; Smillie, Ian,; Uphoff, Norman,
• HerausgeberIn: Freedman, Jim,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (152 p.)

The practice of rich countries providing financial assistance to developing countries has become increasingly controversial. Foreign aid is now characterized more by its failures than its successes, making foreign assistance budgets easy targets for politicians. In academic and policy circles the claim is made that foreign aid has outlived its usefulness. The original essays in Transforming Development take a more optimistic view, and instead of foreseeing the end of foreign aid, show how it might be revived.The essays in this volume argue that foreign aid is, first and foremost, a humanitarian enterprise. The contributors suggest ways to reform the practice of development assistance including new approaches to development financing and novel strategies for increasing the effectiveness of foreign aid, maintaining that development assistance must continue to receive donor support.This forward-looking collection is an ideal text for undergraduate and graduate courses in international development and a valuable resource for practitioners and policy-makers in the field.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Aid at the Forks -- Part One: The Canadian Context -- 1. Canadian Aid: A Mixed Record and an Uncertain Future -- 2. Alleviating Global Poverty or Enhancing Security: Competing Rationales for Canadian Development Assistance -- Part Two: Conditionality and Freedom -- 3. International Trade as the Answer to World Poverty: Is Foreign Aid Obsolete? -- 4. External Conditionality, Local Ownership, and Development -- Part Three: Beyond Donor Agencies -- 5. The Death and Rebirth of International Economic Cooperation -- 6. NGOs: Crisis and Opportunity in the New World Order -- Part Four: Foreign Assistance and Globalization -- 7. Private Markets and Social Equity in a Post-Aid World -- 8. The Small, the Big, and the Ugly -- Part Five: The Pay-offs of Social Capital -- 9. Hard Pay-offs from Soft Resources: Transforming Irrigation System Performance in Sri Lanka -- 10. A Case for Equity -- Part Six: Democratizing Research -- 11. Social Research as an Agent of Social Transformation -- 12. Rethinking Participation, Empowerment, and Development from a Gender Perspective -- Part Seven: Food and Information -- 13. The Decline and Possible Redemption of Food Aid -- 14. Communications and Development: Challenges of the New Information and Communication Technologies -- Conclusion -- References -- Contributors