Development without aid : the decline of development aid and the rise of the diaspora / David A. Phillips.
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- 9780857283023 (ebook)
- 338.9109172/4 23
- HC60 .P485 2013
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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.
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