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Title Challenging the aid paradigm : Western currents and Asian alternatives / edited by Jens Stilhoff Sörensen
Published Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (x, 257 pages)
Series Rethinking international development series
Rethinking international development series.
Contents Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Preface; List of Contributors; 1 Introduction: Reinventing Development for the Twenty-First Century?; Part I: Western Currents; 2 The Development-Security Nexus in Historical Perspective: Governing the World of Peoples; 3 From Materialism to Non-materialism in International Development: Revisiting Rostow's Stages of Growth and Schumacher's Small is Beautiful; 4 Aid Policy, Civil Society and Ethnic Polarisation; Part II: Asian Alternatives; 5 Challenges or Complements for the West: Is there an 'Asian' Model of Aid Emerging?
6 China's Aid to Africa: Policy Evolution, Characteristics and Its Role7 Chinese and African Views on Chinese Aid and Trade in Africa; 8 Chinese Foreign Aid: The Tale of a Silent Enterprise; 9 China in Africa: Any Impact on Development and Aid?; 10 Conclusion: The 'Bios' and 'Geo' of Contemporary Development-Security Policy; Index
Summary "Challenging the Emerging Aid Paradigm critically examines central aspects of Western international aid policy, while at the same time exploring non-western especially Chinese aid and assesses to what extent these may be competitive or complementary"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Economic assistance, European -- Developing countries
Economic assistance, Chinese -- Developing countries
Development economics -- Africa.
Central government policies -- Africa.
Development studies -- Africa.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Government & Business.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Economic Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Business Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Structural Adjustment.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- General.
Economics.
Economic assistance, Chinese
Economic assistance, European
Utvecklingsbistånd.
Developing countries
Form Electronic book
Author Sörensen, Jens Stilhoff
LC no. 2010002714
ISBN 9780230277281
0230277284
9781349367375
1349367370