Doing Good or Doing Better

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SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL FOR GOVERNMENT POLICY onique Kremer, Peter van Lieshout “a rt Went (eds.) 8q

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PART II Towards Development Policies Based on Lesson Learning

An Introduction

Monique Kremer, Peter van Lieshout and Robert Went

Paradigm shifts

Globalization

At the beginning of the 21° century: Elements for development policies based on lesson learning

RETHINKING DEVELOPMENT

Twenty-first Century Globalization, Paradigm Shifts in Development

Jan Nederveen Pieterse

Twenty-first century globalization

Turning points

New development era

International development cooperation

Does Foreign Aid Work?

Roger C. Riddell

Introduction

What aid are we talking about?

Challenges in trying to assess the impact of aid

Does aid work? The evidence

Constraining aid’s greater impact and how these constraints might be addressed

Concluding comments: Aid and the wider perspective

LEARNING FROM DEVELOPMENT HISTORIES

Under-explored Treasure Troves of Development Lessons: Lessons from the Histories of Small Rich European Countries Ha-Joon Chang Introduction: Lessons from history, or rather the ‘Secret History’

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Agriculture

Industrial development

Corporate governance and the concentration of economic power Social and political factors

Concluding remarks

Stagnation in Africa: Disentangling Figures, Facts and Fiction Paul Hoebink

Stagnation in sub-Saharan Africa

The low social development cause

The not-a-nation-state cause

The dependence on raw material exports cause The greedy politicians cause

The weak states and weak policies cause

The Washington consensus cause

Other traps and curses

Conclusions and consequences

Including the Middle Classes? Latin American Social Policies after the Washington Consensus

Evelyne Huber

The rsi period and the origins of social policy regimes

The debt crisis and the Washington consensus

Neoliberalism and its failures

Turn to the left and basic universalism?

The role of the middle classes

Lessons for development policy and external support

Imaginary Institutions: State-Building in Afghanistan Martine van Bijlert

The Afghan state and the dynamics that affect it

The nature of the state-building effort in Afghanistan

How the ‘international community’ responds

Some concluding remarks

Beyond Development Orthodoxy: Chinese Lessons in Pragmatism and Institutional Change

Peter Ho

Buried under development?

On land and institutions

Chinese pragmatism: Colored cats or the demise of ideology? Implications of Chinese development: Some concluding observations

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PART III BEYOND THE STATE: NEW ACTORS IN DEVELOPMENT 9 Business and Sustainable Development: From Passive Involvement

to Active Partnerships 211

Rob van Tulder and Fabienne Fortanier 9.1 Introduction: from uniform to pluriform development thinking 211 9.2 From a traditional to a new development paradigm 213 9.3 From macro to micro: the role of multinationals in sustainable development 216 9.4 From general to specific: Strategic management of corporations and

poverty alleviation 219 9.5 From passive to active: The search for partnerships 226 9.6 Conclusion: The challenges ahead 228 10 Why ‘Philanthrocapitalism’ Is Not the Answer: Private Initiatives

and International Development 237

Michael Edwards 10.1 Private initiatives — what kind and how much? 239 10.2 NGO initiatives 241 10.3 Institutional philanthropy 244 10.4 Common problems: impact and accountability 248 10.5 Conclusions and implications for development policy 249 11 The Trouble with Participation: Assessing the New Aid Paradigm 255

Nadia Molenaers and Robrecht Renard 11.1 Participation: on the main menu or just a side dish? 255 11.2 What the new aid approach sets out to do: some background on the

failure of aid 256 11.3 Flawed results 259 11.4 An overly optimistic notion of civil society 261 11.5 A biased vision on state-society interactions 262 11.6 A conditionality without ownership 266 11.7 When less is more 271