Development Projects for a New Millennium, Anil Hira and
Trevor Parfitt, Westport, Conn, and London: Praeger, 2004, pp. 216.
This is a book aimed at readers who work in the “aid
business”. These include officials of bilateral and multilateral aid
agencies, and the non-government organizations and consultancies working
on contract for or independent of the official agencies. Its fundamental
premise is that aid works best if it helps its ultimate beneficiaries
realize their own goals. Much of the book provides an analysis of how the
purveyors of aid can go about achieving this objective.