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The Politics of Aid - African Strategies for Dealing with Donors (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Aid - African Strategies for Dealing with Donors (Hardcover)
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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 instead are now promoting African 'ownership' of the policies
and projects which foreign aid supports. The authors tease out the
multiple meanings of the term 'ownership', demonstrating why it
became popular when it did, but also the limits to this discourse
of ownership observed in aid practices. The authors set out to
defend a particular vision of ownership--one that involves African
governments taking back control of their development policies and
priorities. Based largely on interviews with the people who do the
negotiating on both sides of the aid relationship, the country case
studies put the rhetoric of the new aid system to a more practical
test. The authors ask how donors seek to achieve their policy
objectives without being seen to push too hard, what preconditions
they place on transferring authority to African governments, and
what effect the constant discussions over development policy have
on state institutions, democracy and political culture in recipient
countries. It investigates the strategies that African states have
adopted to advance their objectives in aid negotiations and how
successful their efforts have been. Comparing the country
experiences, it points out the conditions accounting for the
varying success of eight African countries: Botswana, Ethiopia,
Ghana, Mali, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia. It concludes
by asking whether the conditions African countries face in aid
negotiations are changing.
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