This edited book provides a contemporary, critical and thought-provoking analysis of the internal and external threats to Western multilateral development finance in the twenty-first century. It draws on the expertise of scholars with a range of backgrounds providing a critical exploration of the neoliberal multilateral development aid.

1. Multilateralism and Development Aid: Concepts and Practices Viktor Jakupec, Max Kelly and Jonathan Makuwira 2. Multilateralism, global development: unpacking the megatrends Max Kelly and Jonathan Makuwira 3. Populism and the New World Order Michel de Percy 4. Revisiting Truman Version of Development and Eurafrica Project of Underdeveloping Africa Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni & Busani Mpofu 5. Seventy-Five Years of Financing and Advising Development: Perspectives on Work of the Bretton Woods Institutions and Chequered Africa's Development Charles H.B. Mphande 6.The Washington Consensus and Global Civil Society: The Road Traversed Jonathan Makuwira 7. Shifts in international development aid and its impact on economic growth Maneka Jayasinghe, Saroja Selvanathan, and Eliyathamby A. Selvanathan 8. Development Banks: Washington Consensus, Beijing Consensus or Banking Consensus? Adrian Robert Bazbauers and Susan Engel 9. Rethinking Global Financial Architecture: The Case Of Brics New Development Bank Tafadzwa Chitenderu and Ronney Ncwadi 10. The ADB and AIIB: Cooperation, Competition and Contestation Kearrin Sims 11. The World Bank's Resilience Discourse: Reactive Environmental Norm Diffusion and the Crisis of Global Climate Governance Peter Ferguson 12. Challenging the hegemony of the Washington Consensus: The development potential of BRICS 'from below' Janet Cherry 13. Multilateral Foreign Aid and the shadow of Cold War II Viktor Jakupec 14. A new 'New' multilateralism, in a contemporary development context Max Kelly and John McKay 15. Competing Multilateralisms and Development Aid under Scrutiny Jonathan Makuwira, Max Kelly and Viktor Jakupec