Why we lie about aid : development and the messy politics of change /
Foreign aid is about charity. International development is about technical fixes. At least that is what we, as donors, are constantly told. The result is a highly dysfunctional aid system that mistakes short-term results for long-term transformation and gets attacked across the political spectrum: t...
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London, England :
Zed Books,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- One The theatrics of aid debates
- Two The banality of certainty
- Three The ugly politics of change
- Four The limits of donor influence
- Five.