Development Cooperation in Times of Crisis

Development Cooperation in Times of Crisis

Leading governments undertook extraordinary measures to offset the 2008 economic crisis, shoring up financial institutions, stimulating demand to reverse recession, and rebalancing budgets to alleviate sovereign debt. While productive in and of themselves, these solutions were effective because they were coordinated internationally and were matched with sweeping global financial reforms. Unfortunately, coordination has weakened after these initial steps, indicating one of the crisis's adverse effects will be a significant reduction in development cooperation.

Urging advanced nations to improve their support for development, the contributors to this volume revisit the causes of the 2008 collapse and the ongoing effects of recession on global and developing economies. They reevaluate the international response to crisis and suggest more effective approaches to development cooperation. Experts on international aid join together to redesign the cooperation system and its governance, so it can accept new actors and better achieve the Millennial Development Goals of 2015 within the context of severe global crisis. In their introduction, José Antonio Alonso and José Antonio Ocampo summarize different chapters and the implications of their analyses, concluding with a frank assessment of global economic imbalance and the ability of increased cooperation to rectify these inequalities.
  • CONTENTS
  • Chapter 1 | Introduction: José Antonio Alonso and José Antonio Ocampo
  • Chapter 2 | The Great Recession and the Developing World: José Antonio Ocampo, Stephany Griffith- Jones, Akbar Noman, Ariane Ortiz, Juliana Vallejo, and Judith Tyson
  • Chapter 3 | The International Financial Architecture Seen through the Lens of the Crisis: Some Achievements and Numerous Challenges: Stephany Griffith- Jones and José Antonio Ocampo
  • Chapter 4 | The Economic Crisis and the International Aid: Andrew Mold and Annalisa Prizzon
  • Chapter 5 | Aid, Institutional Quality, and Taxation: Some Challenges for the International Cooperation System: José Antonio Alonso, Carlos Garcimartín, and Víctor Martín
  • Chapter 6 | The New Face of Development Cooperation: The Role of South-South Cooperation and Corporate Social Responsibility: Francisco Sagasti and Fernando Prada (with the collaboration of Mario Bazán, Jorge Chávez Granadino, and Gonzalo Alcalde)
    • APPENDICES
      • APPENDIX 1
      • APPENDIX 2
  • Chapter 7 | Governance of the Aid System and the Role of the European Union: Owen Barder, Mikaela Gavas, Simon Maxwell, and Deborah Johnson
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX