Foreign Aid and the Future of Africa

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-78986-6
Verlag: Birkhäuser

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 443 g

Reihe: African Histories and Modernities

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kalu, Kenneth

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaften einzelner Länder und Regionen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Kenneth Kalu is Assistant Professor of Global Management at Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.