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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Dichter, Thomas W. Despite good intentions. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2003 (OCoLC)647376217 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Thomas W Dichter |
ISBN: | 1558493921 9781558493926 155849393X 9781558493933 |
OCLC Number: | 50114336 |
Description: | xiii, 303 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Introduction/The Great Paradox of Development Assistance -- Romance -- Illusion -- The Developing World and Its Condition -- A Straw in the Wind -- Being Useful or Being Used -- The Evolution of the Idea of Development -- Warm Bodies -- Sliding toward Dependency -- Development Assistance as an Industry (the "Dev Biz") -- Trying Simply to Help -- Avoiding History -- The Helper and the Helped -- Confusing Stakes -- The Consequences of Avoiding Certain Universals of Human Nature -- Spare No Expense--the Very Best -- For the People, By the People -- The Mismatch of Organizational Imperatives and Money -- Position, Not Condition -- Headless Chickens -- The Professionalization of Development -- Too Many Cooks -- Rhetorical Support -- Marketing Development -- Unintended Consequences -- The People's Program -- Conclusion/The Case for a Radical Reduction in Development Assistance. |
Responsibility: | Thomas W. Dichter. |
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A literate, entertaining, and soulsearching critique of the international aid business, by an insider who will make other insiders think hard about what they are doing and where they are going. - Ian Smillie, author of Patronage or Partnership: Local Capacity Building In Humanitarian Crises; ""I can think of no study as comprehensive and grounded in such wide experience and knowledge as Dichter's.... The presentation is amazingly effective, especially the alternation of narrative accounts of hypothetical (but very believable) examples of technical assistance projects with factual discussions of aspects of developmental assistance....A highly readable and literate book."" - Barbara B. Burn, author of Expanding the International Dimension of Higher Education Read more...


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