The Donors’ Dilemma: Emergence, Convergence and the Future of Foreign Aid

As poverty declines, what if the remaining pockets of poverty are increasingly focused in countries where aid is already on the way to becoming irrelevant as domestic resources grow - such as some middle income countries - or in countries which cannot absorb aid easily and quickly – meaning many fragile states?

This is the question addressed by contributors to Global Policy’s first e-book entitled ‘The Donors’ Dilemma: Emergence, Convergence and the Future of Aid', guest edited by Dr Andy Sumner, Co-Director, King’s International Development Institute, King’s College London, and Tom Kirk, Researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

INTRODUCTION

Andy Sumner - The Donors’ Dilemma: Emergence, Convergence and the Future of Foreign Aid

SECTION I - NEW APPROACHES: FROM TRADITIONAL AID TO GLOBAL PUBLIC GOODS

1. Nancy Birdsall - The Future of Aid: 2030 ODA No More

2. Myles Wickstead - The Future of Aid and Beyond

3. Jonathan Glennie - A Manifesto for International Public Finance in the 21st Century

4. Inge Kaul - Time to Think in Terms of Global Public Policy

5. José Antonio Alonso - From ODA to a Global Development Policy

6. David Ritter and Jessica Panegyres - Climate Change and the Future of Aid

7. Asuncion Lera St. Clair - Transforming Development Aid

SECTION II - NEW OBJECTIVES: FROM POVERTY REDUCTION TO EQUITABLE DEVELOPMENT

8. Erik Solheim - The Age of Equality

9. Duncan Green - Shifting the Focus to Knowledge, Inequality and Universal Challenges

10. Ravi Kanbur - Resetting IDA’s Graduation Policy

11. Tony Addison and Finn Tarp - Aid and Growth in Africa

12. Vivan Sharan - Traditional Aid Has No Future: Markets and India’s Lines of Credit

13. Jason Hickel- Aid in Reverse: How Poor Countries Develop Rich

SECTION III - NEW MOTIVATIONS: FROM POST-COLONIAL CHARITY TO DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION AS FAIRER GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

14. David Held and Kyle McNally - Globalisation and Development

15. Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah - From Charity to Social Justice

16. Thomas Pogge - Addressing the Structural Roots of Persistent Underdevelopment

17. John Podesta - Beyond Zero Sum

18. Linah K. Mohohlo - A Change in Mindset is needed if Aid is to Remain Relevant

19. Karl Muth - Aid Circa 2032: Three Players, No Winners

SECTION IV - NEW WAYS OF WORKING: FROM ALLOCATING MONEY TO WORKING CATALYTICALLY

20. Simon Maxwell - What is the future of International Development?

21. Ben Ramalingam - Aid on the Edge of Chaos: Rethinking international cooperation in a complex world

22. Edward R. Carr - The Future is Already Being Fed

23. Shanta Devarajan - Aid as Disruption

24. Andy Sumner – Did global poverty just fall a lot, quite a bit or not at all?

CONCLUSION

25. Andy Sumner and Tom Kirk - The Donors’ Dilemma: A wrap up of the debate