In the past several months American intellectual circles have spawned a new series of challenges to the morality and efficacy of responding to the needs of the poor countries. One of the surprising aspects of these arguments—one which has given considerable satisfaction to the devoted opponents of such aid and even raised eyebrows among the usually uninvolved—is the fact that these challenges have been spawned within the development community, by some who have spent a lifetime advocating help for the poor countries. Unlike earlier challenges which pointed out that much of American aid was used for overt political and military purposes, these new challenges hold that the provision of assistance is in and of itself immoral.
John W. Sewell takes up the ‘politics of development’, looking specifically at the politics of aid in the United States and overall at the impact of globalization on development co-operation and its implications for ODA and offers some suggestions on the impact of globalization on the politics of development. Development (1999) 42, 31–35. doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1110057
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