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Why We Lie About Aid - Development and the Messy Politics of Change (Hardcover)
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Why We Lie About Aid - Development and the Messy Politics of Change (Hardcover)
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Foreign aid is about charity. International development is about
technical fixes. At least that is what we, as donor publics, are
constantly told. The result is a highly dysfunctional aid system
which mistakes short-term results for long-term transformation and
gets attacked across the political spectrum, with the right
claiming we spend too much, and the left that we don't spend
enough. The reality, as Yanguas argues in this highly provocative
book, is that aid isn't - or at least shouldn't be - about levels
of spending, nor interventions shackled to vague notions of
'accountability' and 'ownership'. Instead, a different approach is
possible, one that acknowledges aid as being about struggle, about
taking sides, about politics. It is an approach that has been
quietly applied by innovative development practitioners around the
world, providing political coverage for local reformers to open up
spaces for change. Drawing on a variety of convention-defying
stories from a variety of countries - from Britain to the US,
Sierra Leone to Honduras - Yanguas provides an eye-opening account
of what we really mean when we talk about aid.
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