Peter Blunt
The Political Economy of Bilateral Aid: Implications for Global Development
The Political Economy of Bilateral Aid: Implications for Global Development
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The COVID-19 pandemic and extreme climate events have highlighted the deficiencies of neoliberalism in our political economies. Bilateral development assistance is an integral part of this ideology, but it is often self-serving. This book identifies crucial supply-side nodes of power and influence where functional reforms can make developmental results more likely and enhance donor interests. More authentic, empathetic, and altruistic technical assistance is essential to bring about this change.
Format: Hardback
Length: 161 pages
Publication date: 23 December 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
The COVID-19 pandemic and extreme climate events have highlighted the severe shortcomings of our political economies. The dominant global ideology of neoliberalism, along with its architects and beneficiaries, is to blame for this. Bilateral development assistance is a crucial component of the neoliberal grand design. While the pandemic has exposed the flaws of neoliberalism, its collapse is unlikely in the short term. Consequently, much bilateral assistance will continue to serve self-interests.
Within these limitations, and based on a critical analysis of the functioning of technical assistance at the point of program design and delivery, this book identifies crucial supply-side nodes of power and influence where feasible and relatively straightforward 'functional reforms' – strategy, structure, selection, training – would make genuinely developmental results for recipients more likely and enhance donor interests simultaneously. It argues that more authentic, empathetic, and altruistic technical assistance will be essential to achieving this.
The arguments are supported by primary, published evidence gathered by the author during 18 years of full-time employment as a team leader or program manager of technical assistance programs. The book will be of interest to students of development management, development economics, political economy, and international relations, as well as policy makers, development practitioners, and supply- and demand-side government officials.
Weight: 388g
Dimension: 162 x 240 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032256412
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