{"id":16521,"date":"2011-12-15T14:20:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T20:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16521"},"modified":"2011-12-15T14:20:56","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T20:20:56","slug":"yash-tandon-it-is-official-busan-heralds-the-dismantling-of-the-aid-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16521","title":{"rendered":"Yash Tandon: It is official: Busan heralds the dismantling of the aid industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Yash Tandon<\/p>\n<p>2011-12-13, Issue <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pambazuka.org\/en\/issue\/563\">563<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The \u2018aid industry\u2019 fooled many into believing it was a necessary tool for development. But following the Busan forum on aid effectiveness, its time to rethink a world without it, writes Yash Tandon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>EXECUTIVE SUMMARY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aideffectiveness.org\/busanhlf4\">Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF4)<\/a> was held in Busan, Korea, 29 November \u2013 1 December 2011. It is an end of a long journey that began with the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (PDAE) in 2005. It was a misguided journey right from the beginning. Its authors were probably well-intentioned, but they legitimised and built on a monstrous global aid industry that is largely Eurocentric and self-serving, and that has nursed illusions for over half a century. HLF4 was launched with much fanfare; but it ended with the recognition \u2013 finally &#8211; by the architects of the PDAE that they were on a wrong course. The Outcome Document talks of not \u2018aid effectiveness\u2019 but of \u2018development cooperation\u2019, which is what it should have been from the start; and it sets out the schedule for the \u2018phasing out\u2019 of the aid structures by June 2012. This paper is part of a larger story of how the \u2018aid industry\u2019 has managed to fool the rest of us for so long. It gives the main highlights of Busan\u2019s final burial of this self-reproducing aid industry. The \u2018industry\u2019 will no doubt try and find other reasons to survive. Nonetheless, those not taken in by the industry must now rethink of a world without \u2018aid\u2019.[1]<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pambazuka.org\/en\/category\/features\/78651\">Click here to continue reading &#8220;It is official: Busan heralds the dismantling of the aid industry&#8221; by Yash Tandon<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yash Tandon 2011-12-13, Issue 563 The \u2018aid industry\u2019 fooled many into believing it was a necessary tool for development. But following the Busan forum on aid effectiveness, its time to rethink a world without it, writes Yash Tandon. 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