TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ear,Sophal
TI  - Aid Dependence in Cambodia: How Foreign Assistance Undermines Democracy 
SN  - 9780231161121
AV  - DS554.8 .E25 2013
U1  - 320.9596 23
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Cambodia
KW  - Economic assistance
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Technical assistance
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures and Tables --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Note on Confidentiality --; Introduction --; 1. Aid Dependence and Quality of Governance --; 2. Growth Without Development --; 3. An International Problem --; 4. Shallow Democracy --; Conclusion --; Appendix --; Notes --; Works Cited --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - International intervention liberated Cambodia from pariah state status in the early 1990s and laid the foundations for more peaceful, representative rule. Yet the country's social indicators and the integrity of its political institutions declined rapidly within a few short years, while inequality grew dramatically. Conducting an unflinching investigation into these developments, Sophal Ear reveals the pernicious effects of aid dependence and its perversion of Cambodian democracy.International intervention and foreign aid resulted in higher maternal (and possibly infant and child) mortality rates and unprecedented corruption by the mid-2000s. Similarly, in example after example, Ear finds the more aid dependent a country, the more distorted its incentives to develop sustainably. Contrasting Cambodia's clothing sector with its rice and livestock sectors and internal handling of the avian flu epidemic, he showcases the international community's role in preventing Cambodia from controlling its national development.A postconflict state unable to refuse aid, Cambodia is rife with trial-and-error donor experiments and their unintended consequences, such as bad governance and poor domestic and tax revenue performance-a major factor curbing sustainable, nationally owned growth. By outlining the terms through which countries can achieve better ownership of their development, Ear offers alternatives for governments still on the brink of collapse, despite ongoing dependence on foreign intervention and aid
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/ears16112
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231530927
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231530927/original
ER  -