TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yanguas,Pablo
TI  - Why we lie about aid: development and the messy politics of change 
SN  - 9781783609338
PY  - 2018///
CY  - [London]
PB  - Zed
KW  - Economic assistance
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Aide économique
KW  - Aspect politique
KW  - fast
KW  - Entwicklungspolitik
KW  - gnd
KW  - Entwicklungstheorie
KW  - Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
KW  - Developing countries
KW  - pplt
KW  - Development aid
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-258) and index; Introduction --; One; The theatrics of aid debates --; Two; The banality of certainty --; Three; The ugly politics of change --; Four; The limits of donor influence --; Five; The paradoxes of development diplomacy --; Six; The struggle of thinking politically --; Seven; Understanding the messy politics of change --; Conclusion
N2  - Foreign aid is about charity. International development is about technical fixes. At least that is what we, as donors, are constantly told. The result is a highly dysfunctional aid system that mistakes short-term results for long-term transformation and gets attacked across the political spectrum: those on the right claiming we spend too much, those on the left that we don't spend enough. The reality, as Pablo Yanguas argues in this highly provocative book, is that aid isn't--or at least shouldn't be--about levels of spending, nor interventions shackled to vague notions of accountability, ownership, and harmonization. Instead, a different approach is possible, one that acknowledges aid as being about struggle, about taking sides, and about politics. It is an approach that has been quietly applied by innovative development practitioners around the world, providing political coverage for local reformers to open up spaces for change. Drawing on a variety of convention-defying stories from aid practitioners across the world, from Britain to the United States and Sierra Leone to Honduras, Yanguas provides an eye-opening account of what we really mean when we talk about aid. --
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