Molly Sundberg is an associate professor and senior lecturer in social anthropology at the Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University (SU), Sweden. She is also the director of studies for a multidisciplinary bachelor’s program in global development at SU. During 2007–2010, she worked for the Swedish state aid agency, Sida, in Stockholm and Kigali, Rwanda.

• 1. Introduction 2. The ‘Local Aid Worker 2.0’: Monetizing Aid as in Diversifying Aid’s Experts and Expertise? 3. Lesser Pay as in Less to Say? Aid Localization Revisited 4. Working in the Peripheries: On Access, Brokerage and Trust 5. Who’s the ‘Self’ in Selfish? Profit-Making Developers’ Institutional Interests and the Individuals Pursuing Them 6. Reciprocity in Aid Revisited: Profits and Risks in Development Finance Morality 7. The Sociality of Competition: Consultancy Contracting 8. Reorienting Scholarly Focus in ‘Aidland’ and its Implications 9. International Development Work’s Agents and Beneficiaries

Molly Sundberg is an associate professor and senior lecturer in social anthropology at the Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University (SU), Sweden. She is also the director of studies for a multidisciplinary bachelor’s program in global development at SU. During 2007–2010, she worked for the Swedish state aid agency, Sida, in Stockholm and Kigali, Rwanda.

• 1. Introduction 2. The ‘Local Aid Worker 2.0’: Monetizing Aid as in Diversifying Aid’s Experts and Expertise? 3. Lesser Pay as in Less to Say? Aid Localization Revisited 4. Working in the Peripheries: On Access, Brokerage and Trust 5. Who’s the ‘Self’ in Selfish? Profit-Making Developers’ Institutional Interests and the Individuals Pursuing Them 6. Reciprocity in Aid Revisited: Profits and Risks in Development Finance Morality 7. The Sociality of Competition: Consultancy Contracting 8. Reorienting Scholarly Focus in ‘Aidland’ and its Implications 9. International Development Work’s Agents and Beneficiaries

Molly Sundberg is an associate professor and senior lecturer in social anthropology at the Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University (SU), Sweden. She is also the director of studies for a multidisciplinary bachelor’s program in global development at SU. During 2007–2010, she worked for the Swedish state aid agency, Sida, in Stockholm and Kigali, Rwanda.

• 1. Introduction 2. The ‘Local Aid Worker 2.0’: Monetizing Aid as in Diversifying Aid’s Experts and Expertise? 3. Lesser Pay as in Less to Say? Aid Localization Revisited 4. Working in the Peripheries: On Access, Brokerage and Trust 5. Who’s the ‘Self’ in Selfish? Profit-Making Developers’ Institutional Interests and the Individuals Pursuing Them 6. Reciprocity in Aid Revisited: Profits and Risks in Development Finance Morality 7. The Sociality of Competition: Consultancy Contracting 8. Reorienting Scholarly Focus in ‘Aidland’ and its Implications 9. International Development Work’s Agents and Beneficiaries