Exporting Good Governance

Temptations and Challenges in Canada's Aid Program
Herausgeber: Welsh, Jennifer; Woods, Ngaire

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Can good governance be exported? International development assistance is more frequently being applied to strengthening governance in developing countries, and in Exporting Good Governance: Temptations and Challenges in Canada's Aid Program, the editors bring together diverse perspectives to investigate whether aid for good governance works. The first section of the book outlines the changing face of international development assistance and ideas of good governance. The second section analyzes six nations: three are countries to which Canada has devoted a significant portion of its aid efforts over the past five to ten years: Ghana, Vietnam, and Bangladesh. Two are newer and more complex "fragile states," where Canada has engaged: Haiti and Afghanistan. These five are then compared with Mauritius, which has enjoyed relatively good governance. The final section looks at challenges and new directions for Canadas development policy. Co-published with the Centre for International Governance Innovation

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781554580293
• ISBN-10: 1554580293
• Artikelnr.: 27012549

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Table of Contents for
Exporting Good Governance: Temptations and Challenges in Canada's Aid
Program, edited by Jennifer Welsh and Ngaire Woods
Introduction Jennifer Welsh and Ngaire Woods
The Changing Politics of Aid Ngaire Woods
Focusing Aid on Good Governance: Can It Work? Sue Unsworth
Boy Scouts and Fearful Angels: The Evolution of Canada's International Good
Governance Agenda Ian Smillie
Supporting the State through Aid? The Case of Vietnam Nilima Gulrajani
Assisting Civil Society through Aid: The Case of Bangladesh Fahimul
Quadir
The Benefits of an Indirect Approach: The Case of Ghana Peter Arthur and
David Black
Defence, Development, and Diplomacy: The Case of Afghanistan Scott
Gilmore and Janan Mosazai
The Perils of Changing Donor Priorities in Fragile States: The Case of
Haiti Robert Muggah
Astute Governance Promotion vs. Historical Conditions in Explaining Good
Governance: The Case of Mauritius Richard Sandbrook
Managing Canada's Growing Development Co-operation: Out of the Labyrinth
Bernard Wood
Donor Coordination and Good Governance: Donor-led and Recipient-led
Approaches Paolo de Renzio and Sarah Mulley
Conclusion: Challenges and New Directions for Canada Jennifer Welsh
Contributors
Peter Arthur is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Dalhousie
University. His research focuses on African political economy and
development, and he has written a number of articles and papers on the
multilateral trading system, private sector development, and the role of
the small-scale sector in economic development.
David Black is Professor of Political Science and International Development
Studies at Dalhousie University, and Chair of the Department of
International Development Studies. His current research focuses on Canada
and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Paolo de Renzio is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Politics and
International Relations at Oxford University, and a Research Associate at
the Overseas Development Institute, where he previously was a Research
Fellow. He holds degrees from Bocconi University (Italy) and the London
School of Economics, and has worked as an economist, lecturer, and
consultant in Papua New Guinea and Mozambique.
Scott Gilmore is the Executive Director of Peace Dividend Trust, a
nonprofit foundation dedicated to making peace and humanitarian operations
more effective, efficient, and equitable. He was formerly a Canadian
Foreign Service Officer. As Deputy Director for South Asia, from 2002 to
2004, he focused on the development of Canada's diplomatic, defence, and
development operations in Afghanistan.
Nilima Gurajani is a lecturer in the Department of Government and
Development Studies Institute (DESTIN) at the London School of Economics.
Her doctoral research (completed at Trinity College, Cambridge) examined
management reforms in large aid agencies with operations in Bolivia and
Vietnam.
Janan Mosazai was born and raised in Kabul, Afghanistan. He worked for the
BBC and the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) between 2001 and
2005. He immigrated to Canadainearly 2005, where he is currently pursuing a
master's degree in journalism atCarleton University in Ottawa.
Robert Muggah is at the University of Oxford and is research director of
the Geneva-based Small Arms Survey. He works in several countries on
post-conflict, security, and development issues, including Haiti, Sri
Lanka, the Philippines, Nepal, Uganda, Sudan, and Congo. He is the author
of two forthcoming books, Relocation Failures: A Short History of
Displacement and Resettlement in Sri Lanka (Zed Books) and Securing
Protection (Routledge), as well as No Refuge: The Crisis of Refugee
Militarization in Africa (Zed Books, 2006).
Sarah Mulley is Coordinator of the UK Aid Network, working with UK NGOs to
improve their research, policy, and advocacy work on aid. She was
previously a Research Associate at the Global Economic Governance Programme
in Oxford, and a Senior Policy Analyst at the UK Treasury. She holds an
M.Phil. in International Relations from Oxford University.
Fahimul Quadir is Associate Professor in the Division of Social Science at
York University in Toronto. He is the director of York's Graduate Program
in Development Studies. He has recently published on governance, civil
society, democratization, economic liberalization, and microfinance.
Richard Sandbrook, a professor of political science at the University of
Toronto, has focused his recent research on the political economy of market
reform, democratization, and neoliberal globalization. He has published
numerous scholarly articles and ten books, including most recently Social
Democracy in the Global Periphery: Origins, Challenges, Prospects
(coauthor 2007); Civilizing Globalization: A Survival Guide (2003); and
Closing the Circle: Democratization and Development in Africa (2000).
Ian Smillie was a founder of the Canadian NGO Inter Pares, and is a former
Executive Director of CUSO. His most recent books are Managing for Change:
Leadership, Strategy and Management in Asian NGOs (with John Hailey) and
The Charity of Nations: Humanitarian Action in a Calculating World (with
Larry Minear). He is currently Research Coordinator for Partnership Africa
Canada's "Diamonds and Human Security Project" and a participant in the
forty-five-government Kimberley Process. He was appointed to the Order of
Canada in 2003.
Sue Unsworth spent many years working as a development practitioner with
dfid, latterly as Chief Governance Adviser. She is now a freelance
consultant and a Research Associate with the Institute of Development
Studies, University of Sussex.
Jennifer Welsh is Professor of International Relations at Oxford University
and a Fellow of Somerville College. She is the author and editor of several
works on International Relations theory and Canadian foreign policy,
including most recently Humanitarian Intervention and International
Relations and At Home in the World: Canada's Global Vision for the 21st
Century. In 2006 she was named a Trudeau Fellow, and is currently
researching changing conceptions of sovereignty in international relations.
Bernard Wood heads his own international consulting firm, drawing on his
long experience in development, political, and security affairs. He was the
founding CEO of the North-South Institute, headed the Canadian Institute
for International Peace and Security, and then the secretariat of the
OECD/DAC in Paris. He was educated at Loyola College in Montreal and the
School of International Affairs at Carleton University. He did doctoral
work at the University of London and was a Fellow at Harvard University in
1992-93.
Ngaire Woods is Director of the Global Economic Governance Programme and
Dean of Graduates at University College, Oxford University. She has written
numerous articles on international institutions, globalization, and
governance. Her most recent book is The Globalizers: the IMF, the World
Bank and Their Borrowers. In 2005-6, Ngaire Woods served on a three-person
panel to report to the IMF Board on the effectiveness of the IMF's
Independent Evaluation Office. Since 2002 she has been an Adviser to the
UNDP's Human Development Report.