Aid Effect

David Mosse is Professor of Social Anthropology at SOAS, University of London. He is author of The Rule of Water (Oxford University Press, 2003), Cultivating Development (Pluto, 2004) and The Aid Effect (Pluto, 2005).David Lewis is Professor of Social Policy and Development in the Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics. He is the author of Bangladesh: Politics, Economy and Civil Society (CUP, 2012), co-author of Anthropology and Development (Pluto, 2015) and co-editor of The Aid Effect (Pluto, 2005).

• 1. Introduction: The Ethnography of Donors and Neoliberal Policy by David Mosse2. An Ethnography of ‘Loan Arrangements’ between the Bretton Woods Institutions and the Government of Malawi: Good Governance as Technology by Gerhard Anders3. Timing, Scale and Style: Capacity as Governmentality in Tanzania by Jeremy Gould4. The Reinvention of Ownership at the Dutch Ministry of Development Cooperation by Monique Nuijten and Jilles van Gastel5. Who Owns the Gift? Donor-Recipient Relations and the National Elections in Bolivia by Rosalind Eyben and Rosario Leon6. Interconnected and Interinfected: DOTS and the Stabilisation of the Tuberculosis Control Programme in Nepal by Ian Harper7. The Worshippers of Rules: Defining the Right and Wrong in Local Project Applications in Estonia by Aet Annist8. Unstating ‘the Public’: An Ethnography of Reform in an Urban Public Sector Utility in South India by Karen Coelho9. The Disjuncture of Things: Some Remarks About a New Agenda for Studying Development by Philip Quarles van Ufford