The Aid Effect
Subtitle: Ethnographies of Development Practice and Neo-liberal Reform (Anthropology, Culture and Society)
Contributors: David Moss (Editor); David Lewis (Editor)
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: November 28, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780745323879
Subjects: Aid & relief programmes; International relations; Economic development; Congresses; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Technical assistance; Sociology; International cooperation; Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Developing countries; Economic assistance
First sentence: Today international development policy is characterised by the convergence of ideas of neoliberal reform, democratisation and poverty reduction within a framework of 'global governance'.