{"product_id":"how-do-we-help-the-free-market-in-development-aid-9789058679024","title":"How Do We Help?: The Free Market in Development","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe balance sheet of 50 years of development aid\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver the past 50 years the West has invested over 3000 billion euro in development aid and already tackled many problems. Now more and more countries and organisations present themselves on the development aid scene, including China, India, and foundations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Companies, trade unions, co-operatives, schools and towns set up their own projects in remote African regions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut can each and everybody become a development worker? Who decides what is acceptable and what is not? What is the role of the developing countries themselves? Who can tell what is good aid and what is bad aid? Is it a free market allowing everybody to do what he wants? A market without rules, with a lot of competition and little cooperation?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book draws up the balance sheet of 50 years of development aid and provides an overview of all relevant players, of opportunities and obstacles, of successes and failures. It details numerous examples and information on development projects from all over the world. Readers may be tempted to get involved in development aid, but they will also be more cautious than before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDe ontwikkelingssamenwerking is een vrije markt geworden\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCampuskrant jaargang 23, nr 7, 28 maart 2012\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMagnette krijgt 'How Do We Help?' als vakantieliteratuur\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eDe dertien federale ministers hebben maandag 2 juli 2012 traditiegetrouw hun vakantieliteratuur gekregen van sectorvereniging Boek.be. Zo is er voor \u003cstrong\u003ePaul Magnette\u003c\/strong\u003e 'How do we help' van Patrick Develtere.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLees het volledige bericht via De Standaard Online \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMARKT, GEMEENSCHAP EN ARENA\u003cbr\u003eWaarover? \u003c\/strong\u003eDe schrijver van dit overzichtsboek over internationale samenwerking is ondertussen voorzitter van de koepel van christelijke werknemersorganisaties in België, maar heeft (nu in samenwerking met twee oud-collega's van het HIVA) toch tijd gevonden een Engelse en geüpdate versie van zijn fraaie boek uit te brengen. In de huidige discussie over noodzakelijke hervormingen in het OS-stelsel is het altijd plezierig als iemand dat stelsel eens goed uit de doeken doet. En 'How do we help?' doet dat zeker en doet dat op een plezierige en niet-betweterige manier op basis van drie invalshoeken: OS als markt, als gemeenschap en als arena. Voor- en tegenstanders van hulp kunnen er ongetwijfeld hun eigen gelijk in lezen, maar wellicht ook tot een genuanceerdere kijk komen. Tegenstanders zullen de auteur bovendien moeten vergeven dat zijn sympathie voor het idee van internationale samenwerking doorklinkt zoals in zijn opmerking dat 'few will doubt that development cooperation makes sense'. Het versterkt de relevantie van het boek alleen maar.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVoor wie? \u003c\/strong\u003eVoor iedereen die meer zicht wil krijgen op die wondere wereld van internationale samenwerking en daarvoor niet te beroerd is om dik 200 pagina's door te lezen. Het zouden welbestede uren zijn. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003edr. Lau Schulpen, CIDIN (Radboud universiteit Nijmegen), Vice Versa 2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMARKET, COMMUNITY AND ARENA\u003cbr\u003eAbout?\u003c\/strong\u003e At present, the author of this comprehensive work on international cooperation is the president of the Christian Workers Movement in Belgium. However, together with two former colleagues of HIVA, he has found the time to publish an English updated edition of this handsome book. In the current discussion on necessary reforms of development cooperation, an outspoken vision on its institutional landscape is more than useful. How do we help? is doing just that, and in a delightful, non-pedantic way. Three perspectives are used: development cooperation as market, as community and as arena. In this book, both advocates and opponents of aid will find arguments to prove their case. At the same time, the book invites them to take on a more nuanced point of view. Critics will forgive the author for his sympathy for international cooperation, which sounds through the remark that 'few will doubt that development cooperation makes sense'. It only strengthens the relevance of this book. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor whom?\u003c\/strong\u003e For all who want get acquainted with the wonderful world of international cooperation and do not hesitate to dive into a thick 200 pages. They will find it is time well spent.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003edr. Lau Schulpen, CIDIN (Radboud universiteit Nijmegen), Vice Versa 2012\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContent\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePreface\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDevelopment cooperation: community, arena and, increasingly, market\u003c\/strong\u003e ­\u003cbr\u003eAn expanding community\u003cbr\u003eAn arena with plenty to fight over\u003cbr\u003eA market with many transactions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom colonialism to the Millennium Development Goals \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eColonial warm-up exercises\u003cbr\u003eTechnical cooperation and knowledge transfer \u003cbr\u003eFaith in development aid \u003cbr\u003eDevelopment cooperation: aid in a global setting \u003cbr\u003eTh­e Washington Consensus and structural adjustments \u003cbr\u003eInternational cooperation and the Millennium Development Goals\u003cbr\u003eAddressing poverty in exchange for debt relief \u003cbr\u003eIs Paris introducing order to the market?\u003cbr\u003eMore than development aid\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCooperation means partners \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInternationally: among specialists\u003cbr\u003eRecipient countries: donor darlings and donor orphans\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOcial bilateral cooperation: fractions and fragmentation \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSmall players and institutional pluralism\u003cbr\u003eIn search of an institutional foundation for development cooperation\u003cbr\u003eDecentralisation in order to get closer to the public, or for other reasons?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEurope's development cooperation patchwork\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeeking identity and complementarity\u003cbr\u003eFrom Yaoundé to Cotonou: from association to agreement Strengths and weaknesses of the ACP-EU partnership \u003cbr\u003eTh­e Cotonou Agreement \u003cbr\u003eTh­e European Development Fund \u003cbr\u003eOther instruments \u003cbr\u003eEurope: a major pioneer?\u003cbr\u003eA choice in favour of Africa?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMultilateral cooperation: the UN galaxy ­\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTh­e UN and development cooperation \u003cbr\u003eTh­e World Bank: not a cooperative \u003cbr\u003eRegional development banks \u003cbr\u003eTh­e United Nations Development Programme \u003cbr\u003eTh­e rise of new vertical programmes on the UN market \u003cbr\u003e‘Deliver as one': seeking cooperation on the market\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe NGDOs: bringing values onto the market \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA movement with many faces \u003cbr\u003eA sector with many roles \u003cbr\u003eSeveral generations of NGDOs \u003cbr\u003eA sector with many dierent visions and strategies \u003cbr\u003eA movement with a plural support base \u003cbr\u003eTh­e sector breaks free from the NGDOs \u003cbr\u003eIs a new social movement becoming a network movement?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA fourth pillar on the market\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTh­e key players of the fourth pillar \u003cbr\u003eA new generation of altruists? \u003cbr\u003eStarting from a different field \u003cbr\u003eAn alternative way of working \u003cbr\u003eMainstreaming development cooperation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHumanitarian aid: in good shape or going downhill? ­­\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat place for emergency aid? \u003cbr\u003eNeeds and promises \u003cbr\u003eCash-and-carry on the market?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe unbearable lightness of the support for development cooperation ­\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTh­e uneasy relationship with the support base\u003cbr\u003eNo (more) aid fatigue?\u003cbr\u003ePopular, yet little understood\u003cbr\u003eSomething needs to be done: but by whom?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDrawing up the balance sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProgress, but too little, too slowly and not for everyone\u003cbr\u003eAre we really that generous?\u003cbr\u003eWho is receiving aid?\u003cbr\u003eTh­e effectiveness and impact of development cooperation\u003cbr\u003eDevelopment cooperation: a stumbling-block?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eConclusion ­\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbbreviations\u003cbr\u003eEndnotes \u003cbr\u003eGlossary \u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Leuven University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48889930678615,"sku":"9789058679024","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9789058679024.jpg?v=1722556562","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/how-do-we-help-the-free-market-in-development-aid-9789058679024","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}