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UNINA9910780533703321 |
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Titolo |
Transforming development : foreign aid for a changing world / / edited by Jim Freedman |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2000 |
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©2000 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-02564-3 |
9786612025648 |
1-4426-8274-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (305 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Economic assistance - Developing countries |
Livres numeriques. |
e-books. |
Electronic books. |
Developing countries |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: Aid at the Forks / Jim Freedman -- pt. 1. The Canadian Context -- 1. Canadian Aid: A Mixed Record and an Uncertain Future / David R. Morrison -- 2. Alleviating Global Poverty or Enhancing Security: Competing Rationales for Canadian Development Assistance / Cranford Pratt -- pt. 2. Conditionality and Freedom -- 3. International Trade as the Answer to World Poverty: Is Foreign Aid Obsolete? / Albert Berry -- 4. External Conditionality, Local Ownership, and Development / Gerry Helleiner -- pt. 3. Beyond Donor Agencies -- 5. The Death and Rebirth of International Economic Cooperation / Keith Griffin -- 6. NGOs: Crisis and Opportunity in the New World Order / Ian Smillie -- pt. 4. Foreign Assistance and Globalization -- 7. Private Markets and Social Equity in a Post-Aid World / Roy Culpeper -- 8. The Small, the Big, and the Ugly / Jonathan S. Barker -- pt. 5. The Pay-offs of Social Capital -- 9. Hard Pay-offs from Soft Resources: Transforming Irrigation System Performance in Sri Lanka / Norman Uphoff -- 10. A |
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Case for Equity / Jim Freedman -- pt. 6. Democratizing Research -- 11. Social Research as an Agent of Social Transformation / Marie France Labrecque -- 12. Rethinking Participation, Empowerment, and Development from a Gender Perspective / Jane L. Parpart -- pt. 7. Food and Information -- 13. The Decline and Possible Redemption of Food Aid / Susan Horton and Anne Germain -- 14. Communications and Development: Challenges of the New Information and Communication Technologies / Edna F. Einsiedel and Melissa P. Innes -- Conclusion / Jim Freedman. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Foreign aid is now known more for its failures than its successes, leading to claims in academic and policy circles that foreign aid has outlived its usefulness. Instead of foreseeing the end of foreign, these essays show how it might be restored. |
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