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Book | Leiden University catalogue |
Title: | The politics of aid: African strategies for dealing with donors |
Editor: | Whitfield, Lindsay |
Year: | 2009 |
Pages: | 401 |
Language: | English |
City of publisher: | Oxford |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
ISBN: | 9780199560172 |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | development cooperation aid agencies |
Abstract: | This book presents an original approach to understanding the relationship between official aid agencies and aid-receiving African governments, focusing on the concept of 'ownership'. The authors defend a particular vision of ownership - one that involves African governments taking back control of their development policies and priorities. Part 1 lays out the analytical approach to the study of aid, arguing that aid is always negotiated because there are necessarily conflicting interests between donors and recipient countries. Lindsay Whitfield and Alastair Fraser review the literature on aid negotiation, discuss aid-recipient sovereignty in historical context, and set out the parameters of the contemporary aid system. Part 2 presents the experiences of eight African countries based on new empirical research: Botswana (Gervase Maipose), Ethiopia (Xavier Furtado and W. James Smith), Rwanda (Rachel Hayman), Ghana (Lindsay Whitfield and Emily Jones), Mali (Isaline Bergamaschi), Mozambique (Paolo de Renzio and Joseph Hanlon), Tanzania (Graham Harrison and Sarah Mulley with Duncan Holtom) and Zambia (Alastair Fraser). Finally, Lindsay Whitfield provides a comparative analysis of the country studies and a conclusion. [ASC Leiden abstract] |