TY - UNPB
T1 - Aid: the drama, the fiction, and does it work?
AU - de Haan, A (Arjan)
N1 - ISSN 0921-0210
http://hdl.handle.net/1765/18705
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The international community is under increased pressure to show results from the money invested through aid agencies. While support for international development has been large, there has also been a forceful critique. This paper argues that much of the public debate tends to be counter-productive, as it takes insufficient account of the diversity of aid motives, agencies, modalities, and problems addressed. Critical to the debate on aid, in my view, is to focus on the accountability towards both the funders and recipients of aid, and the international community needs to ensure strengthened accountability – rather than producing “results” – enables increased space for the development of developmental social contracts.
AB - The international community is under increased pressure to show results from the money invested through aid agencies. While support for international development has been large, there has also been a forceful critique. This paper argues that much of the public debate tends to be counter-productive, as it takes insufficient account of the diversity of aid motives, agencies, modalities, and problems addressed. Critical to the debate on aid, in my view, is to focus on the accountability towards both the funders and recipients of aid, and the international community needs to ensure strengthened accountability – rather than producing “results” – enables increased space for the development of developmental social contracts.
M3 - Working paper
T3 - ISS working papers series. General series
BT - Aid: the drama, the fiction, and does it work?
PB - International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)
CY - The Hague
ER -