Psychology of Aid

This book provides an original, psychological approach to development studies, focusing on the social aspects of aid and its motivational foundations.

List of contents

1 An Aid Cycle PART 1 Donors at Home 2 Donor Bias 3 The Aid Chain PART 2 Donors Abroad 4 Leadership, Participation, and Culture 5 Incremental Improvement 6 Expatriate Work Motivation PART 3 Hosts Abroad 7 Who Should Adapt to Whom? 8 Transactional Positioning PART 4 Hosts at Home 9 Intercultural Work Dynamics 10 Tolerance and Development 11 Why Not Pay Me? 12 Minimal Constraint

About the author

Stuart C. Carr is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at the Northern Territory University of Australia. His speciality is the social psychology of aid organizations, where he has researched and consulted extensively. Stuart is an Honorary Associate of the Asia-Pacific Institute of Human Resource and Development Studies, and Editor of the South Pacific Journal of Psychology. Eilish McAuliffe is Director of the Masters in Healthcare Management program at Trinity College, Dublin. She has worked with various development organizations, including UNICEF, WHO, and the World Bank. Mac MacLachlan is with the Department of Psychology, and is Director of the Centre for Health Behaviour, at Trinity College, Dublin. He specializes in health and organizational issues in international development and has worked with many international and indigenous NGOs.

Summary

This book provides an original, psychological approach to development studies, focusing on the social aspects of aid and its motivational foundations.

Product details

• Authors: Stuart Carr, Carr Stuart, Mac MacLachlan, MacLachlan Mac, Eilish McAuliffe, McAuliffe Eilish
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.05.1998
• EAN: 9780415142076
• ISBN: 978-0-415-14207-6
• No. of pages: 268
• Weight: 660 g
• Illustrations: Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Developing Countries, Aid & relief programmes, Development Studies, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, Aid and relief programmes, Global South / Developing countries