Social Sciences

How Do We Help?

The Free Market in Development Aid Patrick Develtere In collaboration with Huib Huyse and Jan Van Ongevalle

the balance sheet of 50 years of development aid

Over the past 50 years the West has invested over 3000 billion euro in development aid and already tackled many problems. Now more and more countries and organisations present themselves on the development aid scene, including China, India, and foundations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Companies, trade unions, co-operatives, schools and towns set up their own projects in remote African regions. But can each and everybody become a development worker? Who decides what is acceptable and what is not? What is the role of the developing countries themselves? Who can tell what is good aid and what is bad aid? Is it a free market allowing everybody to do what he wants? A market without rules, with a lot of competition and little cooperation? This book draws up the balance sheet of 50 years of development aid and provides an overview of all relevant players, of opportunities and obstacles, of successes and failures. It details numerous examples and information on development projects from all over the world. Readers may be tempted to get involved in development aid, but they will also be more cautious than before.

patrick develtere has been involved in development aid for over 25 years. He teaches development co-operation at the University of Leuven. He is also the president of the Belgian Christian Workers’ Movement. contributors Huib Huyse and Jan Van Ongevalle, Research Group Sustainable Development of hiva – Research Institute for Work and Society, University of Leuven € 29,95 / £26.00 isbn 978 90 5867 902 4 02/2012 15,6 x 23,4 cm Paperback 280 p. nur 740 English

Also of interest Compass for Intercultural Partnerships. A thought provoking book to deploy the integration of cultures as a source of welfare and tolerance in a glocalising world. Patrick Develtere, Bob Elsen, Ignace Pollet € 17,50 / £15.50, isbn 978 90 5867 607 8, July 2007, English

The Global Horizon

Expectations of Migration in Africa and the Middle East Knut Graw & Samuli Schielke (eds)

imaginations, expectations, and motivations that propel the pursuit of migration

Although contemporary migration in and from Africa can be understood as a continuation of earlier forms of interregional and international migration, current processes of migration seem to have taken on a new quality. This volume argues that one of the main reasons for this is the fact that local worlds are increasingly measured against a set of possibilities whose referents are global, not local. Due to this globalization of the personal and societal horizons of possibilities in Africa and elsewhere, in many contexts migration gains an almost inevitable attraction while, at the same time, actual migration becomes increasingly restricted. Based on detailed ethnographic accounts, the contributors to this volume focus on the imaginations, expectations, and motivations that propel the pursuit of migration. Decentring the focus of much of migration studies on the ‘receiving societies’, the volume foregrounds the subjective aspect of migration and explores the impact which the imagination and practice of migration have on the sociocultural conditions of the various local settings concerned.

knut graw is lecturer at the University of Leuven and associated researcher at Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin. His current research focuses on ritual praxis and migration in Senegal, Gambia, and Spain. samuli schielke is a research fellow at Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin. His research focuses on morality, religiosity, and aspiration in Egypt. contributors Maybritt Jill Alpes (Free University of Amsterdam), Ann Cassiman (University of Leuven), Filip De Boeck (University of Leuven), Denise Dias Barros (Universidade de São Paulo), Paolo Gaibazzi (University of Latvia and Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin), Knut Graw (University of Leuven and Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin), Michael Jackson (Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University), Gunvor Jónsson (School of Oriental and African Studies), Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye (cnrs, Paris and Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin), Samuli Schielke (Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin) € 39,50 / £35.00 isbn 978 90 5867 906 2 04/2012 16 x 24 cm Paperback 224 p. nur 740 English