Forward & Acknowledgements Prologue: Tale of Two Foreign Aid Initiatives 1. Foreign Aid: A Problem Posing as a Solution? 2. Who Aids Whom? 3. The Aid Regime 4. Aid Chains 5. Toward the Receiving End 6. Democratic Deficits 7. Money Talks 8. Outcomes 9. End of the Beginning, or Beginning of the End? Appendices: A. Major Donors' Top Five Recipients B. Five Decades of Foreign Aid: Political & Economic Highlights C. Intensity of ODA over Three Decades D. The Debt E. Sources of Information and Debate
DAVID SOGGE is a Fellow of the Transnational Institute (TNI) in Amsterdam. He has spent much of his professional life working for non-governmental aid agencies and in development cooperation programmes in Africa. He has written widely on aid, including Compassion and Calculation: The Business of Private Foreign Aid (Pluto Press, London, 1996).
David Sogge takes us up and down the "aid chain" and through the
chequered history of foreign assistance. Impressively researched
and reasoned, "Give and Take" leaves no doubt that calls for
greater aid are pure folly until today's "market fundamentalism"
and other donor agendas are rejected and systems of accountability
to the poor we claim to assist are established.
*Doug Hellinger, executive director, The Development Group for
Alternative Policies*
Give and Take should be the primer on the aid industry. David Sogge
makes clear why aid, in its present incarnation, will never help
the poor.
*Joe Hanlon, writer*
Highly critical of the way foreign aid has worked in practice, this
ambitious book also outlines some core principles which could lead
to aid making a positive difference for poor people.
*Roger Riddell, Christian Aid*
Little has been written on aid other than the usual uncritical
reports of donor agencies. In this important book David Sogge
suggests the principles that should govern a very different pattern
of globalization, one based on democracy and equal relations
between Third World and donor countries - a far cry indeed from the
present situation.
*Samir Amin*
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