Challenging the Aid Paradigm critically examines central aspects of Western international aid policy, while at the same time exploring non-western, especially Chinese, aid and assesses to what extent these may be competitive or complementary.

MARK DUFFIELD Professor of Development Politics, University of Bristol, UK VANESSA PUPAVAC Lecturer in International Relations, University of Nottingham, UK MARIE SÖDERBERG Professor of Economics and Director of the European Institute for Japanese Studies, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden HE WENPING Professor in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Director of the African Studies Department, Institute of West Asian and African Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing JOHAN LAGERKVIST Research Fellow in Sinology, Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Sweden YAHIA MOHAMED MAHMOOD Research Fellow, Department of Cultural and Economic Geography, University of Lund, Sweden HENNING MELBER Director, Dag Hammarsköld Foundation, Sweden