Transforming development : foreign aid for a changing world / edited by Jim Freedman.

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Foreign aid is now known more for its failures than its successes, leading to claims in academic and policy circles that foreign aid has outlived its usefulness. Instead of foreseeing the end of foreign, these essays show how it might be restored.

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This collection of essays covers a wide range of topics related to the current and future practice of foreign aid with special emphasis on Canada as an aid donor. Editor Freedman (United Nations) takes a positive view of the possible future of foreign aid, arguing that foreign aid need not wither with the end of the Cold War. His organizing principle for the collection is the role of aid in building the social capital necessary for successful functioning of political systems and markets (although many of the essays do not fit this focus). Quite a few contributors are well-known development scholars and their essays are interesting if not entirely new. Some of the other essays are lacking methodologically. Topics covered include Canadian aid history and rationale, the trade versus aid debate, participation and ownership, a proposal for a new global aid system, analysis of NGOs, and examples of the impact of social capital, food aid, and the Internet. This collection will be more relevant to interdisciplinary studies (e.g., development studies, international relations) than discipline-specific fields (e.g., economics, political science, anthropology, sociology). Upper-division undergraduate through professional collections. C. Kilby; Vassar College