John Overton, "Aid, Ownership and Development: The Inverse Sovereignty Effect in the Pacific Islands"
English | ISBN: 0367000520 | 2018 | 344 pages | PDF | 13 MB
One of the key principles for effective aid programmes is that recipient agencies exert high degrees of ownership over the agendas, resources, systems and outcomes of aid activities. Sovereign recipient states should lead the process of development. Yet despite this well-recognised principle, the realities of aid delivery mean that ownership is often compromised in practice.