How the Aid Industry Works: An Introduction to International Development

Abstract

1) Why is aid contested? 2) The aid industry defined 3) How the thinking about aid and international development has evolved 4) Development projects: rationale and critique 5) Hard-nosed development: reforms, adjustment, governance 6) Country-led approaches and donor coordination: can the aid industry let go? 7) Development's poor cousins: environment, gender, participation, rights 8) How does the industry knows what works and what doesn't? 9) Challenges for the 21st Century.

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