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announcements and assessments of major projects in Africa suggest that China has already overtaken the World Bank in lending to … Africa. In this article, we analyze China's aid policy in Africa from a political economy perspective. We show that China is … advantages of the People's Republic, especially in unstable nations and "rough" states. China's engagement in Africa causes some …
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This paper reviews the role of the multilateral aid agencies in the delivery of aid. The role of these institutions is as old as the debate on the role of aid in economic development. Aid is effective in a good policy environment. However, effective aid delivery is equally crucial. This is why...
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The paper discusses the International Finance Facility (IFF), a joint HM Treasury–DFID proposal to increase development aid substantially for the Millennium Development Goals to be achieved by 2015. The main conclusion of the paper is that the proposed IFF is a promising, forward-looking and...
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Academic studies of aid to Africa have typically asked how "we" in the West can get "them" in Africa to adopt economic … findings are published in an edited collection (Whitfield forthcoming 2008). The cases focus on Africa because the continent …
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In its fifth edition, this report focuses on recent developments in Africa's banking sectors and the policy options for … banking groups operating in Africa. Three thematic chapters address challenges and opportunities for financing investment in … Africa: - Investing sustainably in Africa's cities; - Mobilising agricultural value chain financing in Africa: why and how …
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-stabilization countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. …
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Donor support for decentralization comes in two main categories: recommendations at the policy level and project activities at the programming level. At the policy level, donors promote decentralization by recommending greater autonomy for subnational actors. That is, they advocate for reforms...
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, especially in Africa, the role of foreign aid in the future should be distinctly different. While aid will be required to …
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Over the past two decades, donors increasingly linked foreign aid to democracy objectives in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet … and how foreign aid affects the process of democratic consolidation in sub-Saharan Africa by examining two potential …
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