This is a book about negotiations between rich countries and African governments over what should happen with money given as aid. It describes the history of aid talks and gives eight studies of the strategies of negotiation tried by particular African countries. It brings the literature up to date with major changes in the way aid is given and challenges mainstream assumptions that aid is a co-operative process where rich countries help poor countries to achieve their own objectives. Instead of giving up on trying to ...
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This is a book about negotiations between rich countries and African governments over what should happen with money given as aid. It describes the history of aid talks and gives eight studies of the strategies of negotiation tried by particular African countries. It brings the literature up to date with major changes in the way aid is given and challenges mainstream assumptions that aid is a co-operative process where rich countries help poor countries to achieve their own objectives. Instead of giving up on trying to control African governments since the Cold War, the author suggests that rich countries have adopted more subtle means to try and control them and that most African governments have had little success in resisting.
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