Rosalind Eyben Libri

The book explores the complexities of international aid, highlighting how self-deception can hinder genuine progress in improving lives abroad. It critiques traditional aid practices and examines the influence of emerging donors like Brazil, China, and India, emphasizing the importance of cultural and relational understanding. Offering practical tools for development practitioners, students, and researchers, it advocates for reflexivity as a crucial approach in the pursuit of meaningful change and a better world.

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This book examines what happens when we try to improve people's lives in far-away countries and warns how self-deception may construct obstacles to the very change desired. It considers the challenge to traditional aid practices posed by new donors like Brazil, China and India who speak of history, culture and relationships. This accessible critical history of aid provides practical tools and methodology for development practitioners, and students and researchers in development studies, anthropology and international studies to adopt the habit of reflexivity when helping to make a better world.