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  • Criticisms of Official Development Aid

    Official Development Aid is aid from governments, which can take the form of either bilateral aid – direct from donor country to recipient country, or multilateral aid, which is channelled through institutions such as the World Bank. The value of Official Development Aid is much greater than aid channelled through non-governmental organisations such as Oxfam,…

  • Post-Development Perspectives

    The Post-Development Perspective became popular in the 1990s. Theorists from within this perspective are critical of Western models of development, arguing that development was always unjust, that it never worked, and that developing countries should find their own pathways to development. Escobar (2008) criticised modernisation theory for being ethnocentric. He argued that it was only…