Aid for Elites: Building Partner Nations and Ending Poverty Through Human Capital

ISBN-13: 9781107125483 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 304 str.

Mark Moyar

Opis

Foreign aid can be made much more effective by shifting emphasis from poverty alleviation to leadership cultivation and cultural transformation.

Recenzje

'In Aid for Elites Mark Moyar makes a brilliantly argued and compelling case for reviving efforts to invest in human capital as a cornerstone in the development of nations. He analyzes how human capital is the make or break - and often ignored - component in establishing and maintaining functioning institutions. He explains the missteps and faulty logic that saw the US foreign and development policy establishment ditch their large scale programs investing in people in the 1950s and 60s - in favor of an overemphasis on primary education and over reliance on expensive, foreign technical assistance. Re-establishing initiatives in training and education - with necessary adaptations - could present a far cheaper and more effective way than the current set of practices to promote security, rule of law and development. Policy makers and students of security and development alike would be wise to give this book and its recommendations serious attention.' Clare Lockhart, Institute for State Effectiveness, Washington, DC

Spis treści

1. Pathways to development; 2. How governments work; 3. Civilization; 4. Human capital development; 5. Human capital and national security; 6. Training; 7. Militarization; 8. Education in the third world; 9. Education in the United States; 10. Support; 11. Measurement; 12. Conclusion: a new foreign assistance strategy.