Development Cooperation Challenges of the New Aid Architecture [Hardcover]

The aims of and motives for development cooperation have changed significantly in recent times. Besides pursuing short- and longer-term objectives in their own economic, foreign policy and other interests, donors usually have a recognisable and genuine interest in assisting countries in their processes of development.1. What is development cooperation? 2. Development cooperation actors: the new variety of donors 3. Partner countries: differentiating partners in developing regions 4. Approaches: how development aid is provided 5. Effectiveness: what does development cooperation achieve? 6. Global challenges and development cooperation 7. Development cooperation: a dinosaur?

Stephan Klingebiel is Head of Bi and Multilateral Development Cooperation at the German Development Institute. From 2007 to 2011 he was director of KfW Development Bank office in Rwanda. His research and university teaching focuses on political economy of aid, aid & development effectiveness, political economy and governance issues in sub-Saharan Africa, and crisis prevention and conflict management.