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

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (422 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.91096
• Soggetto topico: Economic assistance - Political aspects - Africa
• Soggetto geografico: Africa Foreign economic relations
• Classificazione: 83.46
• Altri autori: WhitfieldLindsay <1978->
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2008.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The politics of aid
• ISBN: 1-383-04597-6; 1-281-93082-2; 9786611930820; 0-19-156796-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823829103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.