Paradoxes and Prospects: Moving Beyond the Study of Foreign Aid

摘要: I his article, “Aid, Development, and Education,” Steve Klees (2010) tells us two stories about foreign aid. The first is that aid does not “work” to alleviate world poverty, no matter whether one takes a neo-Marxist or liberal approach understanding it. Aid more selfinterest geopolitics than anything else – at best it form of compensatory legitimation practiced by the world’s richest governments put band-aid on inequality. Quoting Joel Samoff, aid’s “...essential role achieve publicly stated objectives, but rather maintain global political economy inequality” (p. 16).