Why We Lie About Aid

Why We Lie About Aid
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 277
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ISBN-10 : 9781783609352
ISBN-13 : 1783609354
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Book Synopsis Why We Lie About Aid by : Pablo Yanguas

Download or read book Why We Lie About Aid written by Pablo Yanguas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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