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As the international community addresses numerous development challenges, we must often pause, reflect, and ask: Do good intentions lead to good results? If so, when? And how? There are innumerable development agendas and a multitude of stakeholders involved in saving lives as well as promoting long-term development in many developing countries. What really is the impact of their activities? Are such activities well-coordinated? How effectively can external actors make a meaningful contribution to alleviating local problems? And most importantly, whose priorities do such interventions address, and to what extent are the so-called “beneficiaries” consulted? 

Guest: Kim Yi Dionne, associate professor of political science, University of California, Riverside. Dr. Dionne also edits The Monkey Cage, a blog on politics and political science at The Washington Post. 

Resources:

• Doomed Interventions: The Failure of Global Responses to AIDS in Africa, Cambridge University Press (2018)
• Profile: Kim Yi Dionne, University of California, Riverside
• Kim Yi Dionne on Twitter
• Ufahamu Africa podcast
• Dan Banik on Twitter
• In Pursuit of Development on Twitter

Host:

Professor Dan Banik,

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-banik/

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