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The Aid Effect: Ethnographies of Development Practice and Neo-liberal Reform (Anthropology, Culture and Society)

By David Lewis , David Mosse

Book information

Year
2005
ISBN
0745323863, 9781435662520, 9780745323879, 9780745323862, 0745323871
LCC
HC60 .A45285 2005
Open Library ID
OL18495507M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
760 kB (777917 bytes)
Pages
232\228
Topic
Art Graphic Arts
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Today international development policy is converging around ideas of neoliberal reform, democratisation and poverty reduction. What does this mean for the local and international dimensions of aid relationships?The Aid Effect demonstrates the fruitfulness of an ethnographic approach to aid, policy reform and global governance. The contributors provide powerful commentary on hidden processes, multiple perspectives or regional interests behind official aid policy discourses. The book raises important questions concerning the systematic social effects of aid relationships, the nature of sovereignty and the state, and the working of power inequalities built through the standardisations of a neoliberal framework. The contributors take on new challenges to anthropology presented by a 'global aid architecture' which no longer operates through discrete projects but has moved on to sector wide approaches, budgetary support and other macro-level instruments of development; but they remain faithful to the fieldwork methodology that is anthropology's strength and the source of rare insight.

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