Rethinking Canadian aid

This book contributes to a "rethinking" of Canadian aid on four levels. First, by undertaking a collective rethink of the foundations of Canadian aid. Second, through an analysis of how the Canadian government is rethinking Canadian aid, with a greater focus on the Americas as well as spec...

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Otros Autores: Stephen Brown (auth), Brown, Stephen, 1967- editor (editor), Heyer, Molly den, 1972- editor, Black, David R., editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ottawa, Ontarion : Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press 2015.
Colección:Studies in international development and globalization.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Why Rethink Canadian Aid?
  • Section I: Foundations of Ethics, Power and Bureaucracy
  • Chapter I: Humane Internationalism and the Malaise of Canadian Aid Policy
  • Chapter II: Refashioning Humane Internationalism in Twenty-First-Century Canada
  • Chapter III: Revisiting the Ethical Foundations of Aid and Development Policy from a Cosmopolitan Perspective
  • Chapter IV: Power and Policy: Lessons from Aid Effectiveness
  • Chapter V: Results, Risk, Rhetoric and Reality: The Need for Common Sense in Canada's Development Assistance
  • Section II: The Canadian Context and Motivations
  • Chapter VI: Mimicry and Motives: Canadian Aid Allocation in Longitudinal Perspective
  • Chapter VII: Continental Shift? Rethinking Canadian Aid to the Americas
  • Chapter VIII: Preventing, Substituting or Complementing the Use of Force? Development Assistance in Canadian Strategic Culture
  • Chapter IX: Why Aid? Canadian Perception of the Usefulness of Canadian Aid in an Era of Economic Uncertainty
  • Chapter X: The Management of Canadian Development Assistance: Ideology, Electoral Politics or Public Interest?
  • Section III: Canada's Role in International Development on Key Themes
  • Chapter XI: Gender Equality and the "Two CIDAs": Successes and Setbacks, 1976-2013
  • Chapter XII: From "Children-in-Development" to Social Age Mainstreaming in Canada's Development Policy and Programming? Practice, Prospects and Proposals
  • Chapter XIII: Canada's Fragile States Policy: What Have We Accomplished and Where Do We Go from Here?
  • Chapter XIV: Canada and Development in Other Fragile States: Moving beyond the "Afghanistan Model"
  • Chapter XV: Charity Begins at Home: The Extractive Sector as an Illustration of Changes and Continuities in the New De Facto Canadian Aid Policy.
  • Chapter XVI: Undermining Foreign Aid: The Extractive Sector and the Recommercialization of Canadian Development Assistance
  • Conclusion: Rethinking Canadian Development Cooperation - Towards Renewed Partnerships?
  • Contributors
  • Index.