Development without aid : the decline of development aid and the rise of the diaspora /
David A. Phillips.
- 1 online resource (viii, 224 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
List of acronyms -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: motivation and perspective -- What is foreign aid, who does it, why and how much is there? -- How far has development aid been effective? -- Why has development aid done so little? -- Changing the dynamics of development -- "New aid" : new ways to promote and finance development? -- Another pathway out of poverty? -- Exit strategy : replacing foreign assistance -- Postscript -- Notes -- Index.
'Development without Aid' opens up perspectives about foreign aid to the world's poorest countries. Growing up in Malawi the author developed a sense of the limitations of foreign assistance and from this evolves a critique of foreign aid as an alien resource unable to provide the dynamism that could propel the poorest countries out of poverty.[NP] The book aims to help move the discussion beyond foreign aid. It examines the rapid growth of the world's diasporas as a quasi-indigenous resource of increasing strength in terms of both financial and human capital, and considers how far such a resource might supersede aid. It uses extensive research findings to explore the possibilities for a resumption of sovereignty by poor states, especially in Africa, over their own development with the assistance of the world's diasporas.
9780857283023 (ebook)
Economic assistance--Developing countries.
Developing countries--Dependency on foreign countries. Developing countries--Economic conditions.