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Author Moshonas, Stylianos, author

Title Aid relations and state reforms in the Democratic Republic of the Congo : the politics of mutual accommodation and administrative neglect / Stylianos Moshonas
Published London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018

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Description 1 online resource
Series African governance ; 8
African governance ; 8
Contents Framing Congo's aid relations -- The DRC and its foreign partners since donor re-engagement -- Politics and administration in Congo-Zaire in historical perspective -- The politics of administrative reform (2001-2011) -- Looking beyond reform failure in aid relations -- Conclusion -- Postscript: Aid relations and state reforms in Congo, 2011-2017
Summary "Since 2001 The Democratic Republic of Congo has been engaged in a three-fold transition process towards liberalisation, democratisation, and peace. Throughout this process, external actors (donors, international financial institutions, the UN system, aid agencies) have played a leading role, effectively setting the orientations and modalities of this transition, including their institutional dimension. Congolese actors have not been passively subjected to this process, however, but have potently shaped it in various ways. This book investigates the relationship between international aid partners and various Congolese actors since 2001. It examines this relationship as an aspect of the state reform process, with particular reference to the administration. Stylianos Moshonas argues that the pace and nature of reform has been compromised by the contradictions inherent within the process itself, as advocated by international partners, and by the ability of Congolese power holders to accommodate and co-opt such reforms in line with their own political strategies. Rather than framing aid relations as the outcome of the oppositional points of view of donors and Congolese actors, this book presents a systematic focus on the compromises and accommodative characteristics that aid politics have coalesced around, as well as the contradictory positions donors have found themselves in."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Economic assistance -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
Public administration -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African.
DRC politics.
Public administration.
Economic assistance.
Economic development -- Political aspects.
Politics and government.
SUBJECT Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Politics and government -- 1997- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98004013
Subject Congo (Democratic Republic)
Africa.
Developing countries.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020691688
ISBN 9781351368537
1351368532
1315150107
9781315150109
9781351368544
1351368540