NLU Meghalaya Library

Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC)

Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Development without aid : the decline of development aid and the rise of the diaspora / David A. Phillips.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: London : Anthem Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (viii, 224 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780857283023 (ebook)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification:
  • 338.9109172/4 23
LOC classification:
  • HC60 .P485 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: '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.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Status Barcode
eBooks Central Library Economics Available EB0319

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.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.