Policy Coherence in Development Co-Operation

ISBN-13: 9780714644646 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 508 str.

Jacques Forster; Olav Schram Stokke

Opis

In the 1990s, a widely shared conviction emerged among aid donors that their policies should be more coherent than in the past. The drive towards increased policy coherence came as a response to a state of policy incoherence. The shifting grounds of policy coherence in development co-operation are outlined in this volume. The policies of some selected donorcountries - Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland - are scrutinized and analyzed, with particluar reference to the internal coherence of its development co-operation policy and the common foreign and security policy, and the coherence of EU policies and the bilateral policies of its member states. Some perspectives are highlighted in separate contributions: one analyzes coherene and incoherence of aid and trade policies; another the challenge of policy coherence in the new global order. Governance and coherence in development co-operation are also given particular focus as are coherent approaches to so-called complex emergencies, taking Belgium's policies towards the Great Lakes Region of Central Africa as the point of departure.

Spis treści

European Journal of Development Research

"I warmly recommend this essential and insightful volume. The book is the first systematic and comprehensive introduction to the field...in addition to providing an accessible discussion of development aid and policy coherence, it also has a more general value. Seen as a whole, the book is a broad and wide ranging coverage of development aid in all its complexity."



Thomas Dam,University of Oslo,The European Journal of Development Research

"I warmly recommend this essential and insightful volume. The book is the first systematic and comprehensive introduction to the field of policy coherence in development co-operation. In addition to providing an accessible discussion of development aid and policy coherence, it also has a more general value. Seen as a whole, the book is a broad and wide ranging coverage of development aid in all its complexity

O autorze

Jacques Forster, Olav Schram Stokke