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Outsourcing the business of development : the rise of for-profit consultancies in the UK aid sector
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dc.contributor.author | Whitty, Brendan | |
dc.contributor.author | Sklair, Jessica | |
dc.contributor.author | Gilbert, Paul | |
dc.contributor.author | Mawdsley, Emma | |
dc.contributor.author | Russon, Jo-Anna | |
dc.contributor.author | Taylor, Olivia G | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-08-01T09:30:03Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-08-01T09:30:03Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-07-31 | |
dc.identifier | 283777967 | |
dc.identifier | c299e35d-2a7f-48b4-b97b-517c930571f2 | |
dc.identifier | 85166524439 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Whitty , B , Sklair , J , Gilbert , P , Mawdsley , E , Russon , J-A & Taylor , O G 2023 , ' Outsourcing the business of development : the rise of for-profit consultancies in the UK aid sector ' , Development and Change , vol. 54 , no. 4 , pp. 892-917 . https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12782 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0012-155X | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-9575-4782/work/139965093 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/28071 | |
dc.description | Funding: Economic and Social Research Council - ES/V01269X/1. | en |
dc.description.abstract | While much attention has been paid to the ways in which the private sector is now embedded within the field of development, one group of actors — for-profit development consultancies and contractors, or service providers — has received relatively little attention. This article analyses the growing role of for-profit consultancies and contractors in British aid delivery, which has been driven by two key trends: first, the outsourcing of managerial, audit and knowledge-management functions as part of efforts to bring private sector approaches and skills into public spending on aid; and second, the reconfiguration of aid spending towards markets and the private sector, and away from locally embedded, state-focused aid programming. The authors argue that both trends were launched under New Labour in the early 2000s, and super-charged under successive Conservative governments. The resulting entanglement means that the policies and practices of the UK government's aid agencies, and the interests and forms of for-profit service providers, are increasingly mutually constitutive. Amongst other implications, this shift acts to displace traditional forms of contestation and accountability of aid delivery. | |
dc.format.extent | 26 | |
dc.format.extent | 273332 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Development and Change | en |
dc.subject | HD28 Management. Industrial Management | en |
dc.subject | T-NDAS | en |
dc.subject | MCC | en |
dc.subject.lcc | HD28 | en |
dc.title | Outsourcing the business of development : the rise of for-profit consultancies in the UK aid sector | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Management | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/dech.12782 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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