Dirk-Jan Koch

Foreign Aid and Its Unintended Consequences

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Foreign aid and international development frequently bring with it a range of unintended consequences. Providing a clear overview of what side effects to anticipate when planning, executing, and evaluating aid, this book will be an important resource for students, development practitioners, and policymakers alike.

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Produktdetails

• Rethinking Development
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 170mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9781032412146
• ISBN-10: 1032412143
• Artikelnr.: 68474079

Autorenporträt

Dirk-Jan Koch is Chief Science Officer of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and is Special Professor of International Trade & Development Cooperation at Radboud University, the Netherlands. Views expressed in this book do not represent the official views of these institutions.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: understanding the unintended consequences of international
development 2. For those who love theory: explaining unintended effects
with complexity theory and bounded policy learning 3. Backlash effects: for
every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction 4. Conflict effects:
fighting over and with aid 5. Migration and resettlement effects:
aid-induced displacement 6. Price effects: when aid drives prices up (or
down) 7. Marginalization effects: can aid unintentionally increase
inequality? 8. Behavioural effects: expect the unexpected! 9. Negative
spillover effects: look beyond your own targets 10. Governance effects:
international development and the social contract, uneasy bedfellows 11.
Environmental effects: uneasy trade-offs between ecology and development
12. Ripple effects: the underestimation of positive effects of
international development efforts 13. Conclusion: 'It's the complexity,
stupid'