The Politics and Economics of Britain's Foreign Aid: The Pergau Dam Affair (Hardcover)
 
作者: Tim Lankester 
分類: International relations ,
Development economics & emerging economies  
書城編號: 684198


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出版社: Routledge
出版日期: 2012/09/18
重量: 0.43 kg
ISBN: 9780415529525

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The Pergau dam in Malaysia was the most controversial project in the history of British aid. Because of its high cost, it was a poor candidate for aid funding. It was provided in part to honour a highly irregular promise of civil aid in connection with a major arms deal. After two parliamentary inquiries and intense media coverage, in a landmark judgement the aid for Pergau was declared unlawful.

Tim Lankester offers a detailed case study of this major aid project and of government decision-making in Britain and Malaysia. Exposing the roles played by key politicians and other stakeholders on both sides, he analyses the background to the aid/arms linkage, and the reasons why the British and Malaysian governments were so committed to the project, before exploring the response of Britain’s Parliament, and its media and NGOs, and the resultant legal case. The main causes of the Pergau debacle are carefully drawn out, from conflicting policy agendas within the British government to the power of the business lobby and the inability of Parliament to provide any serious challenge. Finally, Lankester asks whether, given what was known at the time and what we know now, he and his colleagues in Britain’s aid ministry were correct in their objections to the project.

Pergau is still talked about as a prime example of how not to do aid. Tim Lankester, a key figure in the affair, is perfectly placed to provide the definitive account. At a time when aid budgets are under particular scrutiny, it provides a cautionary tale.

Reviews

'This book is a very readable and fair-minded insider’s account of how government occasionally goes badly wrong. It shows how brave and strong-minded civil servants sometimes have to be to preserve integrity and decency in government'. – Lord Patten, Chancellor of Oxford University; former EU Commissione; former Minister for Overseas Development, UK.

'This book is an excellent example of something too little practisigorous post-event evaluation. Tim Lankester showed great courage in speaking truth unto power, albeit unsucceessfully, and he has also confronted the reasons for ODA's failure to stop a poor project. Despite that, the Pergau Dam affair has generated many lessons and changed UK aid policy for the better.

The evaluation shows that the Pergau Dam was not the disaster many predicted (unlike the groundnuts project it actually works effectively). But nor was it the best option at the time, and as a way of generating British jobs it was very poor value for money. The real scandal was the improper confusion of defence and development objectives which the government then tried to cover up.The good news is that, as result of this affair, we will no longer waste development money on middle income countries as a backdoor industrial subsidy.' – Lord Turnbull, former Cabinet Secretary, UK.

'This is an unusual book. Very few senior civil servants, in the UK or elsewhere, are either...

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