Development Delusions and Contradictions: An Anatomy of the Foreign Aid Industry

by David Sims

Book Overview

This book analyses the shortcomings of the Western development aid programme. Through exploring the evolution of aid over more than seven decades, development is examined as an industry with a variety of motives and actors. The driving forces and dynamics in the relationship between aid and economic development are highlighted in relation to faulty development structures and misaligned aims. With a particular focus on Egypt, radical questions are...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303117772X
• ISBN13: 9783031177729
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 397 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"