ABSTRACT
The thinking about development is permeated by notions of crisis, which derive from the awareness that there is an immense – and unacceptable – inequality in life chances between people born in different parts of the world (Selwyn, 2014, pp. 10–13). Many people in rich countries understand the development crisis in terms of a moral obligation to come to the assistance of fellow human beings living in poor countries. Development assistance has thus been an important component of the development project ever since the end of World War II (cf. McMichael, 1996).
