By trying to alleviate poverty abroad, foreign development
assistance tries to meet, among other things, basic human needs,
which some schools of thought classify as basic human rights.
However, because development abroad has often been treated as a
tool for the pursuit of donor interests, rather than as an end to
itself, it often ends up not only neglecting basic human rights,
but making them worse.
Bethany Barratt develops this argument by presenting a
systematic external examination of the internal documentation of
aid rationale in three major donor countries (Britain, Canada and
Australia). The book sets the discussion of these documents in the
context of the foreign policy process and structure of each donor,
and contrasts it with the results of statistical analyses of key
factors in aid. It shows that different criteria are applied to the
various categories of recipient states, resulting in an
inconsistent treatment of recipient rights as an aid criterion.
While the book demonstrates important gulfs between rhetoric and
reality, between elected policymakers and aid implementing
agencies, and between the donors themselves, it comes to relatively
optimistic conclusions about the general direction of foreign
assistance and its increasingly pure focus on poverty
alleviation.
This substantive and important book will be invaluable to
students, researchers and policymakers in the fields of politics,
economics and development.
General
Imprint: |
Routledge
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Routledge Research in Human Rights |
Release date: |
February 2009 |
First published: |
2007 |
Authors: |
Bethany Barratt
|
Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
252 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-415-54346-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Business & Economics >
Economics >
General
|
LSN: |
0-415-54346-0 |
Barcode: |
9780415543460 |
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