Finding Problems to Fit the Solutions : Twenty Years of Aid to the Sahel.
International development cooperation is in crisis. Questions abound: is it effective? Is it even useful? After ten years of ""aid fatigue"", here is a lucid, constructive book that sheds new light on the problems, and makes proposals for reform that are both thoughtful and innovative. Jean-David Naudet's analysis is a genuine contribution to the literature on aid. He combines the insight of the sociologist and the experience of the practitioner, with a few enlightening incursions into organization theory. The book is both pragmatic and concrete, and is based on papers and workshops organized. Read more...