03156nam 2200577Ia 450 991045412370332120200520144314.01-281-93082-297866119308200-19-156796-5(CKB)1000000000707170(EBL)415950(OCoLC)437096379(SSID)ssj0000223897(PQKBManifestationID)11185384(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000223897(PQKBWorkID)10204923(PQKB)10158273(MiAaPQ)EBC415950(Au-PeEL)EBL415950(CaPaEBR)ebr10273017(CaONFJC)MIL193082(EXLCZ)99100000000070717020080926d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe politics of aid[electronic resource] African strategies for dealing with donors /edited by Lindsay WhitfieldOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20091 online resource (422 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-956017-X 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 Ownership9. 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?; IndexThe 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 iEconomic assistancePolitical aspectsAfricaAfricaForeign economic relationsElectronic books.Economic assistancePolitical aspects338.91096Whitfield Lindsay1978-991738MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454123703321The politics of aid2269694UNINA