Donor Aid and Private Investment: Their Interplay With Media Development

Jacob Nyarko, Eric Opoku Mensah and Basil Hamusokwe

SAGE Open, 2020, vol. 10, issue 2, 2158244020920618

Abstract: Media development requires substantial funding, and therefore, donors, foreign governments, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and foundations have found a way to play an influential role through their financial support. However, it appears that the donors are also fighting a losing battle considering the rapidly changing political-economic structures of contemporary society spearheaded by the very private sector they enhanced. This study generally presents a systematic review of “foreign aid†to Africa as a base “to explore how donor funders and private investment impact media functions.†The work also sheds light on the extent to which donor support impacted the governance system within the media political economy of Africa. It establishes that donors, who are the very saviors, are also a threat to media freedom because they set the agenda for content, resulting in undue influence on the type of stories that are told. As a result, media development becomes constricted.

Keywords: donors; development; media; assistance; investors; aid; agenda-setting; Ghana; Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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