Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the authors -- Preface -- 1 Towards Development Policies Based on Lesson Learning: An Introduction -- 1.1 Paradigm shifts -- 1.2 Globalization -- 1.3 At the beginning of the 21st -- 2 Twenty-first Century Globalization, Paradigm Shifts in Development -- 2.1 Twenty-first century globalization -- 2.2 Turning points -- 2.3 New development era -- 2.4 International development cooperation -- 3 Does Foreign Aid Work? -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 What aid are we talking about? -- 3.3 Challenges in trying to assess the impact of aid -- 3.4 Does aid work? The evidence -- 3.5 Constraining aid's greater impact and how these constraints might be addressed -- 3.6 Concluding comments: Aid and the wider perspective -- 4 Under-explored Treasure Troves of Development Lessons: Lessons from the Histories of Small Rich European Countries -- 4.1 Introduction: Lessons from history, or rather the 'Secret History' -- 4.2 Agriculture -- 4.3 Industrial development -- 4.4 Corporate governance and the concentration of economic power -- 4.5 Social and political factors -- 4.6 Concluding remarks -- 5 Stagnation in Africa: Disentangling Figures, Facts and Fiction -- 5.1 Stagnation in sub-Saharan Africa -- 5.2 The low social development cause -- 5.3 The not-a-nation-state cause -- 5.4 The dependence on raw material exports cause -- 5.5 The greedy politicians cause -- 5.6 The weak states and weak policies cause -- 5.7 The Washington consensus cause -- 5.8 Other traps and curses -- 5.9 Conclusions and consequences -- 6 Including the Middle Classes? Latin American Social Policies after the Washington Consensus -- 6.1 The ISI -- 6.2 The debt crisis and the Washington consensus -- 6.3 Neoliberalism and its failures -- 6.4 Turn to the left and basic universalism? -- 6.5 The role of the middle classes.

6.6 Lessons for development policy and external support -- 7 Imaginary Institutions: State-Building in Afghanistan -- 7.1 The Afghan state and the dynamics that affect it -- 7.2 The nature of the state-building effort in Afghanistan -- 7.3 How the 'international community' responds -- 7.4 Some concluding remarks -- 8 Beyond Development Orthodoxy: Chinese Lessons in Pragmatism -- 8.1 Buried under development? -- 8.2 On land and institutions -- 8.3 Chinese pragmatism: Colored cats or the demise of ideology? -- 8.4 Implications of Chinese development: Some concluding observations -- 9 Business and Sustainable Development: From Passive Involvement to Active Partnerships -- 9.1 Introduction: from uniform to pluriform development thinking -- 9.2 From a traditional to a new development paradigm -- 9.3 From macro to micro: the role of multinationals in sustainable development -- 9.4 From general to specific: Strategic management of corporations and poverty alleviation -- 9.5 From passive to active: The search for partnerships -- 9.6 Conclusion: The challenges ahead -- 10 Why 'Philanthrocapitalism' Is Not the Answer: Private Initiatives and International Development -- 10.1 Private initiatives - what kind and how much? -- 10.2 NGO initiatives -- 10.3 Institutional philanthropy -- 10.4 Common problems: impact and accountability -- 10.5 Conclusions and implications for development policy -- 11 The Trouble with Participation: Assessing the New Aid Paradigm -- 11.1 Participation: on the main menu or just a side dish? -- 11.2 What the new aid approach sets out to do: some background on the failure of aid -- 11.3 Flawed results -- 11.4 An overly optimistic notion of civil society -- 11.5 A biased vision on state-society interactions -- 11.6 A conditionality without ownership -- 11.7 When less is more.

12 How Can Sub-Saharan Africa Turn the China-India Threat into an Opportunity? -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Development trajectories for Sub-Saharan Africa - three orthodoxies -- 12.3 The rise of the Asian Driver economies and their challenge to the three orthodoxies -- 12.4 The Asian Drivers and Sub-Saharan Africa - win-win or win-lose? -- 12.5 The policy response -- 12.6 Policy actors -- 13 Post-war Peace-building: What Role for International Organizations? -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Recipes for peace? -- 13.3 International capacity and coordination -- 13.4 Local capacity and international footprint -- 13.5 Conclusion -- 14 Migration and Development: Contested Consequences -- 14.1 Background -- 14.2 Conceptual issues -- 14.3 Patterns of migration -- 14.4 Approaches to migration and development -- 14.5 Conclusion -- 15 Global Justice and the State -- 15.1 The rise of the concern for global justice -- 15.2 The birth of the notion of distributive justice -- 15.3 Balancing our loyalties. On the extension of justice into the international realm -- 15.4 It's not 'what can you do?' but 'what can your institutions do?' -- 15.5 From cosmopolitanism back to the state: Rawls and the Law of Peoples.