The politics of aid : African strategies for dealing with donors

edited by Lindsay Whitfield

The volume examines negotiations between rich countries and African governments over what should happen with money given as aid. Describing the history of aid talks the volume presents eight studies of the strategies of negotiation tried by particular African countries. - ;This book presents an original approach to understanding the relationship between official aid agencies and aid-receiving African governments. The first part provides a challenge to the hazy official claims of aid donors that they have stopped trying to force African governments to do what 'we' think is best for 'them' and i

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Year of publication:	2009
Other Persons:	Whitfield, Lindsay (contributor)
Publisher:	Oxford : Oxford University Press
Subject:	Afrika \| Africa \| Entwicklungsorganisation \| Development organization \| Entwicklungshilfe \| Development aid
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [external.dandelon.com]

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (XX, 401 Seiten) Illustrationen
Conferences:	Workshop ; (Oxford) : 2006.09.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index Contents; Foreword; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Aid and Sovereignty; 1. Negotiating Aid; 2. Aid-Recipient Sovereignty in Historical Context; 3. Understanding Contemporary Aid Relationships; 4. Botswana: The African Success Story; 5. Ethiopia: Retaining Sovereignty in Aid Relations; 6. Rwanda: Milking the Cow. Creating Policy Space in Spite of Aid Dependence; 7. Ghana: Breaking Out of Aid Dependence? Economic and Political Barriers to Ownership; 8. Mali: Patterns and Limits of Donor-Driven Ownership 9. Mozambique: Contested Sovereignty? The Dilemmas of Aid Dependence10. Tanzania: A Genuine Case of Recipient Leadership in the Aid System?; 11. Zambia: Back to the Future?; 12. Aid and Power: A Comparative Analysis of the Country Studies; Conclusion: Changing Conditions?; Index Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:	0-19-956017-X ; 978-0-19-956017-2 ; 978-0-19-956017-2
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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