Assessing the Role of Foreign Aid, Donors and Recipients

Jong-Dae Park ()
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Jong-Dae Park: Embassy of the Republic of Korea

Chapter Chapter 2 in Re-Inventing Africa’s Development, 2019, pp 37-60 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter focuses on the role of foreign aid and takes issue with the intellectual circles’ habit of criticizing aid and blaming donors. In order to get to the heart of the matter, the author asks a simple but a thought-provoking question: ‘Who is to be blamed?’ He moves beyond the pros and cons of aid to highlight the real dynamism that underlies this issue, to make plain that, while the limitations of foreign aid are obvious, aid is only a means to an end. Concepts like ‘reciprocal compliance’ are used to show the interactive nature of foreign assistance in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-03946-2_2

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