N-AERUS Annual Seminar Paris, 15-17 May 2003 BEYOND THE NEO-LIBERAL CONSENSUS ON URBAN DEVELOPMENT: OTHER VOICES FROM EUROPE AND THE SOUTH WORKSHOP PAPERS

Mariken Vaa BEYOND THE NEO-LIBERAL CONSENSUS ON URBAN DEVELOPMENT: OTHER VOICES FROM EUROPE AND THE SOUTH Download the draft paper in RTF format Download the draft paper in PDF format Abstract This paper has three parts. The first is a brief presentation of the research agendas drawn up by African participants in a project on urban research in the developing world called the Global Urban Research Initiative. I then discuss a dominant mode of donor financing of African urban research - the research consultancy – arguing that it has negative implications for the building of research capacity and for quality in research. The third part is a discussion of what we as researchers can do to influence aid agencies and other funding bodies to be more constructive in the way they channel resources to social research and in their use of researchers and their work.

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