Transforming Development: Foreign Aid for a Changing World

Published by University of Toronto Press 2000

Transforming Development

Foreign Aid for a Changing World

Edited by: Jim Freedman

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442682740

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About this book

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.

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Freedman Jim :

Jim Freedman is professor emeritus in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Western University

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

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 152

eBook

Published: April 18, 2000
ISBN: 9781442682740