Transforming Development: Foreign Aid for a Changing World

by Jim Freedman

Book Overview

The practice of rich countries providing financial assistance to developing countries has become increasingly controversial. Foreign aid is now characterized more by its failures than its successes, making foreign assistance budgets easy targets for politicians. In academic and policy circles the claim is made that foreign aid has outlived its usefulness. The original essays in Transforming Development take a more optimistic view, and instead of foreseeing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802080510
• ISBN13: 9780802080516
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher