Words Matter: Ditching the Outdated and Patronising “Aid” Narrative
As Southern countries discover a bolder voice on the global stage, they are demanding more respectful relationships and less patronizing language to a...
Read More >>“The Global Public Investment approach is our best bet for modernising international public finance for the 21st century.”
International cooperation has never been more needed, but the current system of “aid” is outdated and ineffective. The Future of Aid calls for a wholesale restructuring of the aid project, a totally new approach fit for the challenges of the 21st century: Global Public Investment.
Across the world, billions of people are struggling to get by in unequal and unsustainable societies, and international public finance, which should be part of the answer, is woefully deficient. Engagingly written by a well-known expert in the field, The Future of Aid calls for a series of paradigm shifts.
With COVID-19 underlining the inequalities and unsustainability of the current structure of development finance, big new ideas are needed. That is what this book provides.
I am so excited about this book! It's the first really inspired take on the changes we need to make in the aid and global development system I've seen this year… Rethinking aid as Global Public Investment is critical if we are to secure our undeniably inter-dependent future.
[The] concept of GPI comes at the right time, when we urgently need new ideas to shape the future of public finance.
[Global Public Investment is] a potential rallying point as we plan ahead how to reconstruct the socio-economic fabric after the pandemic.
This book articulates what many intuitively feel but few say out loud: that aid needs to be reformed, increased, and maintained for the long term. Not charity, but a smart investment in a more just and sustainable world.
Based on scholarly reviews and dialogue, The Future of Aid: Global Public Investment is a demonstration of a rare skill in an academic author; the ability to combine fairly dense ideas with engaging prose to make the text accessible to a broad audience.
As Southern countries discover a bolder voice on the global stage, they are demanding more respectful relationships and less patronizing language to a...
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