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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Whitfield, Lindsay, 1978- editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic assistance--Political aspects--Africa.

Economic assistance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (422 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-04597-6

1-281-93082-2

9786611930820

0-19-156796-5

OCLC:

437096379