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Informationen zum Autor Patrick Develtere has been involved in development cooperation for over 35 years. He teaches international development cooperation at the KU Leuven. Klappentext The balance sheet of 50 years of development aid. Over 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. But 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? This 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 failure. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Content Preface Introduction Development cooperation: community, arena and, increasingly, market An expanding community An arena with plenty to fight over A market with many transactions From colonialism to the Millennium Development Goals Colonial warm-up exercises Technical cooperation and knowledge transfer Faith in development aid Development cooperation: aid in a global setting The Washington Consensus and structural adjustments International cooperation and the Millennium Development Goals Addressing poverty in exchange for debt relief Is Paris introducing order to the market? More than development aid Cooperation means partners Internationally: among specialists Recipient countries: donor darlings and donor orphans Ocial bilateral cooperation: fractions and fragmentation Small players and institutional pluralism In search of an institutional foundation for development cooperation Decentralisation in order to get closer to the public, or for other reasons? Europe's development cooperation patchwork Seeking identity and complementarity From Yaoundé to Cotonou: from association to agreement Strengths and weaknesses of the ACP-EU partnership The Cotonou Agreement The European Development Fund Other instruments Europe: a major pioneer? A choice in favour of Africa? Multilateral cooperation: the UN galaxy The UN and development cooperation The World Bank: not a cooperative Regional development banks The United Nations Development Programme The rise of new vertical programmes on the UN market 'Deliver as one': seeking cooperation on the market The NGDOs: bringing values onto the market A movement with many faces A sector with many roles Several generations of NGDOs A sector with many dierent visions and strategies A movement with a plural support base The sector breaks free from the NGDOs Is a new social movement becoming a network movement? A fourth pillar on the market The key players of the fourth pillar A new generation of altruists? Starting from a different field An alternative way of working Mainstreaming development cooperation Humanitarian aid: in good shape or going downhill? What place for emergency aid? Needs and promises Cash-and-carry on the market? The unbearable lightness of the support for development cooperation The uneasy relationship with the support bas...
