When the UK colonies became independent, many British civil servants stayed on in their respective countries as advisers. Development economist Valentin Seidler has created a unique collection of data on the colonial officials of the time. He intends to identify the qualities and skills that make someone a good development aid worker. Continue reading “New lessons from the “cradle of development cooperation””
The sociologist Zeynep Sezgin investigated the strategies used by faith-based humanitarian NGOs to gain and maintain legitimacy. With the support of the Austrian Science Fund FWF, she studied how Muslim and Christian aid organisations respond to the expectations of their stakeholders. Continue reading “Faith-based humanitarian aid”
Concepts of modern development aid have been inherited from Europe’s colonialist era and thus have their roots much further in the past than has been thought till now. This is the outcome of a project supported by the Austrian Science Fund FWF whose report was recently published in the book Developing Africa. Continue reading “Colonial roots of modern development policy”
Food and the body are increasingly seen as an expression of identity and a token of quality of life. The social impact of changes in food culture in the case of Vietnam are now the focus of a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF. Continue reading “Changes in eating culture”