1. Putting politics into international development? It’s about time
- Author:
- Charles Cadwell
- Publication Date:
- 04-2016
- Content Type:
- Commentary and Analysis
- Institution:
- Urban Institute
- Abstract:
- It may be difficult in the current political season to welcome news that international development agencies are paying more attention to the politics of reform when designing their assistance programs to poor countries. But we should be relieved that agencies like the World Bank, the UK’s Department for International Development, and our own US Agency for International Development are doing just that. For too long, aid programs operated with the convenient fiction that assistance work was purely technical. The premise of many programs was “simply transfer missing knowledge, skills, or cash to people in the foreign government or local organizations, and they could adopt policies and programs to promote growth and reduce poverty."
- Topic:
- Poverty, Foreign Aid, International Development, and Economic Growth
- Political Geography:
- Europe, Global Focus, and United States of America