Politics of Aid: African Strategies for Dealing with Donors
Title: Politics of Aid: African Strategies for Dealing with Donors Author: Lindsay Whitfield ISBN: 9780199560172 Publisher: Oxford University Press Published: 2009 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: Used: Near Fine Z 1627937 Publisher Description: 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 s