| Description |
xviii, 127 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Vernon W. Ruttan -- Foreword / Paul Streeten -- 1. The Background -- 1.1. Thinking about Development -- 1.2. Salient Features of Development Aid: A Practitioner's Introduction -- 1.3. Study Approach -- 2. The Cases -- 2.1. The "War on Waste" -- 2.2. Cereal Banks -- 3. Analysis and Discussion -- 3.1. The Paradigm Life Cycle -- 3.2. Behavioral Background -- 3.3. The Ills of Aid -- 3.4. Interactions/Interdependencies around the Interventionist Paradigm -- 4. Conclusions and Recommendations -- 4.1. Principal Restructuring Elements -- 4.2. Evaluation -- 4.3. UN Technical Agencies -- 4.4. Anthropological (or Reality Experience) Year -- 4.5. Accountability to the Basic Providers of Funds -- 4.6. Privatization of Aid? -- 4.7. Globalization with Tact -- 4.8. "Development Aid, End It or Mend It" |
| Summary |
"With this book, Eberhard Reusse channels thirty years of experience with international aid programs into the task of both diagnosing the problems afflicting these programs and formulating a possible cure. Supporting his analysis with detailed case studies of two rural development programs in Africa - the United Nations' "War on Waste" and cereal banks for small-farmer communities - Reusse reveals a system riddled with flaws. Impatient assumptions, belated and often suppressed recognition of their invalidity, and the perpetuation of unsuitable programs over decades - all are characteristic of the system. Local populations "fail" to participate in programs, or their accumulated firsthand knowledge is ignored and marginalized. Development experts make misjudgments or are adversely pressured by funding concerns. Programs are unevaluated and unaccountable to donors, perpetuating themselves long after they're proved ineffective or inefficient. And throughout the book, Reusse demonstrates the principal systemic flaw: unrealistic interventionist paradigms - that is, Western notions of Third World realities that misidentify needs for intervention - at the root of most inappropriate development policies. The problems continue to this day." "Very few critiques of foreign development aid have approached the subject from the perspectives of organizational, rural, or epistemic sociology. The Ills of Aid combines all three and points toward fundamental solutions: more direct accountability to the primary funding base - the international taxpayer - and the privatization of aid. Learned, pragmatic, and important, The Ills of Aid is essential reading for all in the field."--BOOK JACKET.sed |
| Notes |
A version of the manuscript was published in a limited edition in Germany in 1999 under the title Interventionist paradigms and the ills of aid |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Economic assistance -- Developing countries -- Evaluation.
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Economic development.
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| Author |
Reusse, Eberhard.
Interventionist paradigms and the ills of aid
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| LC no. |
2002018967 |
| ISBN |
0226710149 : |
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