Catalysing Development?

Notes on Contributors

vii

Preface

xi

1

Aid as a Catalyst

Jan P. Pronk

1

2

Unpacking Aid
James K. Boyce

21

3

Aid as a Flight Forward
Louis Emmerij

29

4

Aid is an Unreliable Joystick
Gud Edgren

43

5

Development Goals, Governance and Capacity Building:
Aid as a Catalyst
John Degnbol-Martinussen

51

6

Age of Reverse Aid: Neoliberalism as Catalyst of Regression
James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer

63

7

Aid, Conditionality and Development
Ajit Singh

77

8

The effectiveness of Policy Conditionality: Eight Country Experiences
A. Geske Dijkstra

89

9

Aid and the Geopolitics of the Post-Colonial: Critical Reflections on New Labour's Overseas Development Strategy
David Slater and Morag Bell

117

10

Good Governance and Aid: Selectivity Criteria in Development Assistance
Wil Hout

143

11

International Development Targets and Official Development Assistance
Santosh Mehrotra

161

12

Aid Effectiveness and Policy Ownership

Rehman Sobhan

171

13

It is Possible to Just Give Money to the Poor

Joshep Hanlon

181

14

Aid as a Catalyst: A Rejoinder
Jan P. Pronk

201

Index

209