Description
Product ID: | 9789058679024 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | BE |
Title: | How Do We Help? |
Subtitle: | The Free Market in Development Aid |
Authors: | Author: Patrick Develtere |
Page Count: | 264 |
Subjects: | Society and culture: general, Society & culture: general |
Description: | 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 failures. The balance sheet of 50 years of development aid 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 failures. 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. |
Imprint Name: | Leuven University Press |
Publisher Name: | Leuven University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2012-02-14 |