Development Aid-Populism and the End of the Neoliberal Agenda

This volume examines the impact of the Trump presidency on development aid. It starts out by describing the rise of national populism, the political landscape and the reasons for rejection of the political establishment, both under Trump and internationally. Next, it gives a historical-political overview of development aid in the post WW-II era and discusses the dominant Washington Consensus doctrine and its failure. It then provides a critique of the Official Development Assistance (ODA) discourse and reviews the political economy of ODA, the discourse, and the conditionalities that are barriers to socio-economic development. The final chapters explore the question of Trumponomics as an alternative to the global neoliberal ODA, and the potential impact of Trumponomics' on ODA. The book concludes with thoughts on the potential future directions for ODA within the 'ideals' of Trumponomics and national populism.

Autorentext
Viktor Jakupec is Professor, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Potsdam and honorary Professor, Faculty of Arts and Education at Deakin University. He is a member of the Leibniz Sozietät and the coeditor of scholarly books including Assessing the Impact of Foreign Aid: Value for Money and Aid for Trade. His research focus combines development aid impact assessment and political economy analyses. He spent over 20 years working as a consultant for development aid projects in Asia, Europe and NEMA funded by multilateral aid agencies. He received his Dr. phil. from the Fernuniversität Hagen.

Inhalt

List of Abbreviations.- Preface.- Chapter 1: The rise of populism.- Chapter 2: Development Aidan historic-political overview.- Chapter 3: A critique of the development aid discourse.- Chapter 4: Trumponomics.- Chapter 5: The potential impact of Trumponomics on development aid.