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Title
Foreign Aid and the Future of Africa / by Kenneth Kalu.
ISBN
3319789872
9783319789873
9783319789866
Imprint
Springer International Publishing.
Published
Cham Springer International Publishing Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (IX, 242 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-319-78987-3 doi
Call Number
DT1-3415
Dewey Decimal Classification
960
Summary
During the past five decades, sub-Saharan Africa has received more foreign aid than has any other region of the world, and yet poverty remains endemic throughout the region. As Kenneth Kalu argues, this does not mean that foreign aid has failed; rather, it means that foreign aid in its current form does not have the capacity to procure development or eradicate poverty. This is because since colonialism, the average African state has remained an instrument of exploitation, and economic and political institutions continue to block a majority of citizens from meaningful participation in the economy. Drawing upon case studies of Angola, Cameroon, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Nigeria, this book makes the case for redesigning development assistance in order to strike at the root of poverty and transform the African state and its institutions into agents of development.
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Series
African histories and modernities.
Available in Other Form
3319789864
1. Introduction: Foreign Aid and Poverty in Africa
2. The Postcolonial African State Revisited
3. Africa in the Global Community
4. The Structure of Foreign Aid to Africa since the 1960s
5. Foreign Aid: How far and how well?
6. Targeting the Fundamentals: Towards a new form of development assistance to Africa
7. Development Assistance Redesigned
8. The State and Economic Development
9. Explaining Africa's Underdevelopment
10. Conclusion.
