The trouble with aid : why less could mean more for Africa / Jonathan Glennie
Published
London ; New York : Zed Books in association with International African Institute, Royal African Society, Social Science Research Council ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
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
Summary
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
Analysis
Africa Economic policy 21st century
Economic assistance Africa
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-166) and index
Notes
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