The trouble with aid: why less could mean more for Africa
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Main Author: Glennie, Jonathan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Zed Books in association with International African Institute, Royal African Society, Social Science Research Council 2008
Series:African arguments
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 175 pages)
ISBN:9781848133686
1848133685

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