Contents

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

David Webster and Greg Donaghy

Part 1: Entering the Aid World, 1950–1960

1   Encounter and Apprenticeship: The Colombo Plan and Canadian Aid in India, 1950–1960

Jill Campbell-Miller

2   “Reasonably Well-Organized”: A History of Early Aid Administration

Greg Donaghy

3   Developing the World in Canada’s Image: Hugh Keenleyside and Technical Assistance

David Webster

Part 2: Development, Diplomacy, and Trade, 1953–1991

4   “A One Way Street”: The Limits of Canada’s Aid Relations with Pakistan, 1958–1972

Ryan Touhey

5   One Size Fits All? Canadian Development Assistance to Colombia, 1953–1972

Stefano Tijerina

6   Samaritanos canadienses?: Canadian Development Assistance in Latin America during the Trudeau Years

Asa McKercher

7   “Trotsky in Pinstripes”: Lewis Perinbam, CIDA, and the Non-Governmental Organizations Program, 1968–1991

Kevin Brushett

Part 3: Imagery and Symbolism

8   Building a Base: The Growth of Public Engagement with Canadian Foreign Aid Policy, 1950–1980

Ted Cogan

9   Pictures in Development: The Canadian International Development Agency’s Photo Library

Sonya de Laat

10   “Tears Are Not Enough”: Canadian Political and Social Mobilization for Famine Relief in Ethiopia, 1984–1988

Nassisse Solomon

Part 4: The Political Economy of Canadian Aid, 1980–2018

11   Canadian Development Assistance to Latin America

Laura Macdonald

12   CIDA and Aid to Africa in the 1990s: A Crisis of Confidence

David Black

13   A Samaritan State?, Canadian Foreign Aid, and the Challenges of Policy Coherence for Development

Stephen Brown

Conclusion

14   Concluding Reflections: Beyond Aid

Dominique Marshall

Bibliography

Contributors

Index