Development and Inequality

The development dance redux: how mutually reinforcing dependencies guarantee the status quo

The recipient's arsenal: negative manipulation, passive aggression, and exploiting donor vulnerabilities

Uncomfortable truths: exposing the colossal remuneration differentials and their corrosive effects

The development dance: how donor control and conditionalities render country ownership a hollow artifact

The procurement system, the myth of neutral expertise, and the monopolization of country knowledge

The product development compulsion and the chronic problem of donor overload

The money moving syndrome and the institutional drive for disbursement over development

A sketch of the development industry and its self-perpetuating structure

Exposing the uncomfortable truths about the billion foreign aid industry - why it persists, who benefits, and what might actually work.

Introducing a 10-part series examining the foreign aid industry through the lens of David Sims' 50 years of experience and his book Development Delusions and Contradictions.