New Perspectives on Aid Delivery and Development Management

Abstract

A fundamental rethinking of the way in which foreign assistance should be delivered and how the development process is to be managed took place in the 1990s alongside the redefinition of priorities for foreign aid. As we have seen with regard to the definition of priorities for foreign aid in the context of the emerging challenges of globalization, UN conferences provided the main vehicle both for rethinking the issues and for reaching agreed objectives. However, with respect to the delivery of foreign aid and the management of development, no UN conference was organized specifically to address this question. Yet given the fundamental changes being brought about by liberalization and globalization, aid delivery and development management have also been subjects for rethinking. In this respect, successful models of development in contemporary East and South East Asia and elsewhere, as well as other examples drawn from history, have proved instructive.