Argues that Africa, far from being a drain on the financial resources of the West, is actually a net creditor to the rest of the world. The extent of capital flight from sub-Saharan Africa is remarkable: more than $700 billion in the past four decades. But Africa s foreign assets remain private and hidden, while its foreign debts are public, owed by the people of Africa through their governments. More than half of the money borrowed by African governments in recent decades departed in the same year, with a significant portion of it winding up in private accounts at the very banks that provided the loans in the first place. Meanwhile, debt-service payments continue to drain scarce resources from Africa, cutting into funds available for public health and other needs. Controversially, the authors argue that African governments should repudiate these odious debts from which their people derived no benefit, and that the international community should assist in this effort. 160pp, UK. ZED BOOKS.

Aid is always a means of influence: political, commercial, military and security-related. Some influence is benign, but much of it is coercive, even imperialistic. Given the nature of aid, its effectiveness should be judged not only in developmental terms, but in terms of international relations. Even donors agree that, on both counts, the returns are meagre. This book, drawing on the author's 30 years of field experience, proposes two kinds of solution: donors should climb down from paternalistic central planning practices and support public goods that are neutral and beneficial. Index, notes, charts, 172pp, UK. EARTHSCAN.

Starts from the premise that money alone will not bring sustained development to Africa. Concludes that there are serious gaps, created in part by a striking lack of knowledge of the African context and culture on the part of the donors, and troublesome institutional constraints, that make it difficult for aid agencies to change the way they operate. Index, bib, 172pp, USA. LEXINGTON BOOKS.

...challenges the emerging orthodoxy that international aid should play a role in the management of conflict, and that it should promote development in the midst of war....provides a sobering reassessment of the role and impact of aid in unstable states' Jeff Crisp, UNHCR. Figs, notes, refs, xiv, 191pp, UK. ZED BOOKS.

Do you know why so many Africans are so poor? What really happens to your aid money? Why trade rules fail African countries and yet cost you too? We've heard it all before: the corrupt leaders, heartless global corporations, the wicked World Bank. This book argues passionately that the answers are much closer to home - and so are the solutions. 352pp, UK. EBURY.

Asks whether the development programmes of these former colonial powers have undergone radical changes since the end of the Old World Order. 458pp, UK. ASHGATE.

This book offers a critical analysis of aid to Africa. The authors examine the framework of aid from traditional Western donors while investigating how the emergence and growth of new donors to Africa has changed the international aid discourse and architecture. The uniquely African perspectives in this book provide both a framework for reshaping and reforming aid and an alternative development paradigm rooted in Africa’s self-determination. Contributing authors to this volume include Samir Amin, Patrick Bond and Demba Moussa Dembele. 204pp, UK. PAMBAZUKA (formerly FAHAMU).

Focuses on the human dynamics of international aid and illustrates how the aid system incorporates power relationships, and therefore relationships of dominance. Using the concept of a triangle of dominance, injustice and identity this timely work explains how the experience of injustice is both a challenge to, and a stimulus to, personal, community and national identity, and how such identities underlie the human potential that international aid should seek to enrich. 192pp, UK. ZED BOOKS.

An introduction to international development theory and how it affects aid and foreign policy. Index, refs, app, tables, figs, 350pp, UK. ZED BOOKS.

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A study of the trend towards NGOs as administrators of foreign aid, asking whether they provide a convenient excuse for spending cuts or if they are genuinely better at spending the budgets than government agencies. Case studies include Zimbabwe, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Bangladesh and Nicaragua. Index, refs, notes, ix, 246pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.

In many countries, prolonged conflicts result in food emergencies that recur over years or even decades. Initial humanitarian relief efforts are rarely replaced by programmes that offer a longer-term perspective on food security. This book provides examples of opportunities to bridge the gap between emergency relief and longer term developmental approaches, using case histories from Somalia, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, which have all been affected by severe protracted crises. Index, notes, tables, figs, 254pp, UK. PRACTICAL ACTION PUBLISHING.

This is a highly personal book by a genuine hero, a man who has returned into the most desperate and violent places in the world, who has continually risked his life to negotiate relief efforts and cease fires. Jan Egeland deals with the best and the worst of humanity on journeys to the world's hellholes. He describes in scary detail his meetings with guerrilla leaders, war lords, heads of states and besieged aid workers in Darfur, Eastern Congo, Northern Uganda, Zimbabwe, Colombia, Lebanon, Gaza and Northern Israel. Bib, index, b/w photos, 253pp, USA. SIMON & SCHUSTER.

Argues that community-based organisations play an increasingly relevant role in Africa, providing services at the level of the local community and civil-society and implementing important development interventions in a variety of fields such as heath, education and gender. CBOs must perform management, finance and fundraising functions so as to ensure successful and sustainable implementation of projects. This book outlines the principles and strategies that underpin the successful management of community-based organisations. 200pp, SOUTH AFRICA. IDASA.

Provides an historical account of key issues facing NGOs today. Case studies seek to identify and analyse the roots of problems, past and present, which have led to the current dilemmas facing charitable organizations. Tables, notes, bib, index, xiii, 210pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.

This collection of Collier's major writings, with assistance from Anke Hoeffler and Jan Gunning, and accompanied by a new introduction, provide the definitive account of a wide range of macroeconomic, microeconomic and political economy topics concerned with Africa. Within macroeconomics, there is a focus on external shocks, exchange rate and trade policies, whilst microeconomic topics focus upon labour and financial markets, as well as rural development. Collier's book 'The Bottom Billion' has become a landmark book and this summation of the research underpinning it is a superb guide for all those concerned with African development. 408pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.

Examines the nature and pattern of post-Cold War aid to sub-Saharan Africa. Provides suggestions for promoting a new development partnership between industrialized countries and Africa. 12 figs, 16 tables, notes, bib, index, ix, 223pp, USA. ASHGATE PUBLISHERS.

New edition. Argues that it is critical to destroy the myth that aid actually works. In the modern globalized economy, simply handing out more money, however well intentioned, will not help the poorest nations achieve sustainable long-term growth. Analyses the history of economic development over the last fifty years and argues that aid crowds out financial and social capital and feeds corruption; the countries that have caught up did so despite rather than because of aid. 208pp, UK. PENGUIN BOOKS.

Analyses the impact of the Western idea of modernity on development and underdevelopment in Africa. It traces the genealogy of the Western idea of modernity from Enlightenment concepts of the universal nature of human history and development, and shows how this idea was used to justify the Western exploitation and oppression of Africa. Argues that contemporary development, theory and practice is a continuation of the Enlightenment project and that Africa can only achieve real development by rejecting Western modernity and inventing its own forms of modernity. 78pp, SENEGAL. CODESRIA.

A training manual based on the experience of Oxfam staff working with a local disabled people's organisation before, during, and after the recent crisis in Kosovo. Their work is supported by case studies from West Africa and South and East Asia show how the principles and training materials can be translated to a wide range of political and social contexts. Written in clear and simple language, with practical materials particularly useful to trainers working in geographically isolated areas without access to sophisticated equipment. Most exercises and activities can be adapted for use in groups of people with a wide range of impairments and educa-tional levels. BNS, 400pp, UK. OXFAM PUBLICATIONS.

An NGO worker's account of her work in the Philippines and the wider picture of the multiple realities of non-governmental organisations. Index, bib, map, diags, gloss, xii, 257pp, UK. ZED BOOKS.

This collection of essays seeks to explore the similarities, differences and overlaps between contempo-rary debates on international development and humanitarian intervention and the historical artefacts and strategies of Empire. It includes the views of historians and students of politics and development, and draws on a range of methodologies and approaches: from the language of moral necessity and conviction; the design of specific aid packages; the devised forms of intervention and governmentality; through to the life-style, design and location of NGO encampments, the authors seek to account for the numerous and often striking parallels between contemporary international security, development and humanitarian intervention, and the logic of Empire. 240pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.

In September 2008, ministers from over 100 countries, heads of bilateral and multilateral development agencies, donor organisations, and civil society organisations from around the world will gather in Accra for the Third High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (2-4 September 2008). This meeting has been promoted as helping developing countries and marginalised people in their fight against poverty by making aid more transparent, accountable and results-oriented. The agenda for Aid Effectiveness has, however, come under heavy criticism from many quarters. This timely book cautions developing countries against endorsing the agenda proposed at this meeting. Argues that, if adopted, it would subject the recipients to a discipline of collective control by the donors right down to the village level. With a Foreword by Benjamin W. Mkapa, President of Tanzania 1995-2005. Index, 144pp, UK. FAHAMU.

New in paperback. Foreign aid is now a $100bn business and is expanding more rapidly today than it has for a generation. But does it work? Indeed, is it needed at all? Other attempts to answer this important question have been dominated by a focus on the impact of official aid provided by governments. But today, possibly as much as 30 percent of aid is provided by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and over 10 percent is provided as emergency assis-tance. In this first-ever attempt to provide an overall assessment of aid, Roger Riddell presents a rigorous but highly readable account of aid, warts and all. 536pp, UK. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

What do peasants do in the face of severe food crisis, and how do they manage to survive? The author traces origins of famine back to the years of recovery providing ecological perspectives on sources of famine. Bib, refs, maps, 247pp, SWEDEN. NORDIC AFRICA INSTITUTE.

The author argues that famine is preventable and that its persistence reflects political failings by African governments, western donors and international relief agencies. Case studies include Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Rwanda and Zaire. Bib, index, notes, 238pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.

Analyzes the impact food aid programmes have had over the past fifty years, assessing the current situation as well as future prospects. Issues such as political expediency, the impact of international trade and exchange rates are put under scrutiny. Extensive African examples. Index, bib, notes, 314pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.

Analyses the failure of aid to promote development in Africa, concluding that Africa's economic crisis has had a devastating effect on aid effectiveness while donor countries dominate aid decisions leaving local governments with little say. Tables, notes, refs, 224pp, SWEDEN. NORDIC AFRICA INSTITUTE.

David Sogge asks: Is there a real net flow of financial resources to the South? How much aid should there be? On what terms should it be given? Do the strings imposed imply a resurrection of old colonial controls? Can Northern governments, international financial institutions and developing countries ever agree? Can we think of an aid system for the new century -- democratic, effective, adequate and just? Boxes, graphics, notes, further reading, websites, index, 256pp, UK . ZED BOOKS.

A personal study of poverty and the romantic notions of the noble savage. The author attempts to refute the notion that poverty is caused by wars, disease and pollution and instead shows that the removal of economic competition and increasing aid is exacerbating the problem rather than helping. ix, 326pp, SOUTH AFRICA. CAPRICORN BOOKS.

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Updated third edition. Provides a complete and powerful overview of what the idea of development has meant throughout history. He traces it from its origins in the Western view of history, through the early stages of the world system, the rise of US hegemony, the supposed triumph of the third world, through to new concerns about the environment and globalization. In two completely new chapters on the Millennium Development Goals and post-development thinking, Rist brings the book completely up to date. Throughout, he argues persuasively that development has been no more than a collective delusion, which in reality has only resulted in widening market relations, despite the good intentions of its advocates. Index, bib, notes, 276pp, UK. ZED BOOKS.

Since the early 1990s, Japan has played an increasingly important and influential role in Africa. A primary mechanism that has furthered its influence has been through its foreign aid policies. Japan's primacy, however, has been challenged by changing global conditions related to aid to Africa, including the consolidation of the poverty reduction agenda and China's growing presence in Africa. This book analyses contemporary political and economic relations in foreign aid policy between Japan and Africa. Primary questions focus on Japan's influence in the African continent, reasons for spending its limited resources to further African development, and the way Japan's foreign aid is invested in Africa. 176pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.

Argues that the poorest countries are most vulnerable to climate change and that Africa is particularly exposed. Sweden should consider full integration of climate change adaptation strategies in its development cooperation with African partners. This will likely mean that some existing priorities will be further accentuated, such as needs to provide water and sanitation services to the poor, raising agricultural productivity, and curbing deforestation. 52pp, SWEDEN. NORDIC AFRICA INSTITUTE.

Historicizes NGOs using the Rockefeller Foundation as a case study, looking at its tripartite paradoxical roles as an agent of colonialism, globalization and development/underdevelopment. It deploys interdisciplinary devices to show how the RF projects have engaged in marginaliza-tion, patronage and othering of African values and customs and the ensuing controversies. Using globalization, postmodern and postcolonial theories the book deconstructs the long-held myths about NGO inviolability, and opens ground for understanding their strengths. It interro-gates sites of contestation, apprehension and possibilities that the RF has produced. 288pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.

Formal political structures have produced little more than 'electoral democracy' in Africa without tackling the problems of poverty and elite exploitation. This book looks at the opportunities for, and limitations of, voluntary bodies in seeking a more 'just' order at both African and global levels. 248pp, UK. PALGRAVE.

The authors ask how donors seek to achieve their policy objectives without being seen to push too hard, what preconditions they place on transferring authority to African governments, and what effect the constant discussions over development policy have on state institutions, democracy and political culture in recipient countries. It investigates the strategies that African states have adopted to advance their objectives in aid negotiations and how successful their efforts have been. Comparing the country experiences, it points out the conditions accounting for the varying success of eight African countries: Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, Mozam-bique, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia. It concludes by asking whether the conditions African countries face in aid negotiations are changing. 352pp, UK. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

For eight years, Giles Bolton worked for DFID in countries like Kenya, Rwanda and Iraq. Idealistic and committed, he was determined to make a difference, but instead found himself confronted by an appallingly wasteful global aid industry and a persistently unequal trade system. He also began to see how Africa was being ripped off in its relations with the West, and how the western consumer and taxpayer was also losing out as a result. This account ad-dresses the five crucial issues at the heart of this dilemma - Poverty, Aid, Trade, Globalisation and Change. It attempts to answer the questions behind the campaigns and concerts: Why is Africa still poor? What really happens to our aid money? How do trade rules affect the ordinary consumer at the checkout? And will the new promises made by Tony Blair and others finally make a difference? 352pp, UK. EBURY.

Argues that the market fundamentalist approach to economics, promoted by most of the industrialised countries and the Bretton Woods institutions, actually increases the vulnerabilities of small and poor countries, exposing them to financial crises. 78pp, SENEGAL. CODESRIA.

Giordano Sivini was an international aid consultant for over twenty-five years. Here, he channels a 1960s and 1970s idealistic political commitment into fieldwork and the sphere of development from the 1980s to the present. While the fathers of independence of British and French decolonization wanted to change the colonial conditions of exploitation, Sivini finds that their good intentions have been shipwrecked. Ironically, the longer Sivini served as an aid consultant, the more he found himself dismayed at the various projects that were under way or slated to begin. He perceived some of the projects as grotesque, and, almost all ineffective. The money was wasted on such ventures not because of a particular government's interest in the social effects they would have on the local populace, but because of the direct and indirect benefits the government would receive. Translated by J.K. Hall. 310pp, USA. TRANSACTION PUBLISHERS.

Argues in two extensive essays that the role of NGOs in Africa cannot be understood without placing them in their political and historical context. Aid, in which NGOs play a significant role, is frequently portrayed as a form of altruism, a charitable act that enables the wealthy to help the poor. As structural adjustment programmes were imposed across Africa in the 1980s and 1990s, the international financial institutions and development agencies began giving money to NGOs for programmes to minimise the more glaring inequalities perpetuated by their policies. As a result, NGOs have flourished and played an unwitting role in consolidating the neoliberal hegemony in Africa. 84pp, UK. FAHAMU

Despite hundreds of billions of dollars spent on foreign aid to sub-Saharan Africa, a sure path to growth and development has not yet been found - and each new heralded approach has crumbled amid regrets and recriminations. The contributors to this volume provide critical assessments of the main components of foreign assistance, considering how smarter use can be made of available resources to advance growth and democracy, rebuild war-torn societies, and reduce the crippling poverty that underlies many of the continent's fierce conflicts. 305pp, USA. LYNNE RIENNER.

This book questions many key assumptions about the efficacy of NGOs and civil society in development. It provides suggestions on how to improve NGO performance and how NGOs can better link with local African initiatives and agendas. Beginning in the 1980s, sub-Saharan Africa witnessed a veritable explosion of NGOs and CSOs engaged in efforts to develop the subcontinent. Often praised for their commitment, flexibility, close contact with grassroots movements and marginalized groups, these organizations have become the darlings of donors and the UN system. During the same period, however, rural Africa has sunk deeper into poverty. The massive NGO engagement appears not to have made any meaningful progress. 272pp, USA. KUMARIAN PRESS.

Revised edition. What are the roots of poverty in Africa and what should now be done about it? How can a better understanding of African politics contribute to an entirely new policy agenda for aid, trade, and debt? This book draws on a substantial body of research to argue that much thinking on Africa - from both official donors and from international NGOs alike - is flawed, because that thinking either does not recognize or does not draw out the implications of the central role of politics and the state in Africa's development problems. The author argues that almost all African countries the political elites are uninterested in leading a development process. Index, bib, notes, tables, 194pp, UK. ITDG PUBLISHING.

A critical but light-hearted look at the international aid industry, following the author's career from a youthful do-gooder in the Philippines to Director General of the Kenya-based African Medical & Research Foundation (AMREF) and its renowned Flying Doctor Service. Topics covered include the Peace Corps, debt relief, the aid business, health, food and cultural practices, among many other subjects. Tales from Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, the Philippines, India and additional countries form the backdrop to this entertaining account. 280pp, UK. TROUBADOR PUBLISHING.

New in paperback. Long time World Bank official argues that most of Africa's misfortunes are self-imposed, and why the world needs to help the continent in a different way. Argues that African countries have steadily lost markets through mismanagement; and that corrupt, dictatorial regimes have hobbled agriculture, enterprise and foreign investment and that African leaders prey intentionally on Western guilt. Aims to move beyond the hand-wringing and finger-pointing which dominates most discussions of Africa. Index, notes, 249pp, USA. YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Argues that, along with its many benefits, government aid to Africa has often meant more poverty, more hungry people, worse basic services and damage to already precarious democratic institutions. Moreover, calls for more aid are drowning out pressure for action that would really make a difference for Africa's poor. Rather than doubling aid to Africa, it is time to reduce aid dependency. Index, bib, notes, 175pp, UK. ZED BOOKS.

Examines the role of NGOs in African development, and gives advice to governments and development agencies on ways to encourage the growth of NGOs. Identifies access to and creation of power as crucial to NGO development. Based on original case studies of Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Senegal. Index, bib, xi, 206pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.

Critique of the worlds largest multilateral development lending agency in the context of globalization and the increasing domestication of market-based economic reforms. Adopting a tripartite historical, theoretical and empirical approach the study shows how the Bank is still moored in neo-liberal market ideology and western hegemony, lacks transparency and democracy in its workings, and boasts pro-poor policies that are little more than empty rhetoric. 94pp, SENEGAL. CODESRIA.

New in paperback. Why after 50 years and US$2.3 trillion are there still children dying for lack of twelve cents' medicine? Why are there so many people still living on less than $1 a day without clean water, food, sanitation, shelter, education or medicine? This book argues that grand plans and good intentions are a part of the problem not the solution. Giving aid is not enough, we must ensure that it reaches the people who need it most and the only way to make this happens is through accountability and by learning from past experiences. Index, notes, charts, 400pp, UK. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Now in its third edition, this fully revised and updated edition is the essential fundraising handbook for the developing world (including Africa, Asia, Latin America and countries of Eastern Europe). Using case studies and examples of good practice, it offers guidance and advice on establishing effective local fundraising and the opportunity to tap into a wide range of sources of funding (including government, companies and charitable foundations). It also offers fundraising techniques and sources of information and help. This new edition incorporates changes in fundraising practice and new case studies as well as a completely updated and rewritten section on internet fundraising and an expanded 'Useful organisations' section. 336pp, UK. DIRECTORY OF SOCIAL CHANGE.