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Book SynopsisA critical account of the politics of aid-giving.
Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Ethnography of Donors and Neoliberal Policy by David Mosse
2. An Ethnography of ‘Loan Arrangements’ between the Bretton Woods Institutions and the Government of Malawi: Good Governance as Technology by Gerhard Anders
3. Timing, Scale and Style: Capacity as Governmentality in Tanzania by Jeremy Gould
4. The Reinvention of Ownership at the Dutch Ministry of Development Cooperation by Monique Nuijten and Jilles van Gastel
5. Who Owns the Gift? Donor-Recipient Relations and the National Elections in Bolivia by Rosalind Eyben and Rosario Leon
6. Interconnected and Interinfected: DOTS and the Stabilisation of the Tuberculosis Control Programme in Nepal by Ian Harper
7. The Worshippers of Rules: Defining the Right and Wrong in Local Project Applications in Estonia by Aet Annist
8. Unstating ‘the Public’: An Ethnography of Reform in an Urban Public Sector Utility in South India by Karen Coelho
9. The Disjuncture of Things: Some Remarks About a New Agenda for Studying Development by Philip Quarles van Ufford