The trouble with aid why less could mean more for Africa - Glennie, Jonathan (Zed Books in association with International African Institute, Royal African Society, Social Science Research Council, 2008)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-166) and index
Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 -- Time to think again; 2 -- The new aid era; 3 -- All aid's impacts: the bigger picture; 4 -- Pulling the strings: the reality of aid conditionality; 5 -- Institutions, institutions, institutions; 6 -- Aid, growth and confused academics; 7 -- A better future?; 8 -- Why is aid really going up?; 9 -- What is to be done?; Notes; Bibliography; Index
In this book, Jonathan Glennie argues that, along with its many benefits, government aid to Africa has often meant more poverty, more hungry people, worse basic services and damage to already precarious democratic institutions