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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454123703321

Titolo

The politics of aid [[electronic resource] ] : African strategies for dealing with donors / / edited by Lindsay Whitfield

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-281-93082-2

9786611930820

0-19-156796-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (422 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WhitfieldLindsay <1978->

Disciplina

338.91096

Soggetti

Economic assistance - Political aspects - Africa

Electronic books.

Africa Foreign economic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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