Development Aid in Russia: Lessons from Siberia

ISBN-13: 9780230216389 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 281 str.

Judith Marquand

Opis

This study draws on first-hand experience of a series of development projects in Siberia through the period from the dissolution of the Soviet Union until the election of President Medvedev. It draws on development studies and post-Soviet literature to provide a critical account of the projects which the author ran and to examine the reasons for their successes and failures. The period covered allows the long-term effects of the aid to be analysed. The book includes pioneering accounts of the policies of the donors (the EU TEMPUS TACIS programme and UK government programmes). It outlines improved methods of granting aid and draws lessons that are widely applicable across the developing world.

Spis treści

List of Maps and Tables Foreword Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Prologue Introduction PART I: BACKGROUND The Russian Context The EU TEMPUS TACIS Programme The UK Know How Fund and SEPS Programmes PART II: THE PROJECTS Introduction to Part II Management Development for TSU Library, 1994-8 TSU Environmental Management Masters Degree, 1995-9 Tomsk Oblast Ecological Committee, 1998-9 Developing Distance Learning in Siberia, 1999-2001 Sustainable Development in Omsk, 2002-03 and 2005 European Studies at TSU, 2000-02, 2003-06 and 2007-08 PART III: LESSONS Lessons from the Projects Lessons for Donors Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

O autorze

JUDITH MARQUAND was the first Head of the Economics of Environmental Protection Division in the UK Government Economic Service, chairing the OECD Sub-Committee of Economic Experts. She holds honorary doctorates from Salford University, UK and Tomsk State University, Russia. She held a Research Fellowship at Louvain-la-Neuve University, Belgium and a Senior Simon Research Fellowship at Manchester University, UK. She has headed a research centre at Sheffield University and taught at Oxford University, UK. She is the author of Autonomy and Change.