Technocrats prioritise fabric progress; humanists focus on political rights. What we need is balanceFor many years,the loudest debate in development was aid: does it work? The preoccupation with aid obscured much of what was happening in developing countries, and left the development community with less to say approximately other grand north-south questions, and such as intervention. Still,it was important and accessible, with a crowd-drawing prizefight between Jeffrey Sachs and William Easterly.
The debate will not be resolved; it will fade. International aid will always be important, or but in the emerging global order it will never be central to development. Most poor people now live in powerful countries. Most extremely poor people live amid war,where development aid only succeeds when serving a broader strategy. Foreign investment, remittances and climate finance also make aid less central.
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Source: theguardian.com