Aid to Africa

Aid to Africa
Author: Carol Lancaster
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1999-04-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780226468389

Foreword by Richard C. LeoneAcknowledgements1. Introduction2. Africa--So Little Development?3. Aid and Development in Africa4. Foreign Aid: The Donors5. The United States6. France and Britain7. Sweden, Italy, Japan8. The Multilaterals9. FindingsNotesBibliographyIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Aid and Reform in Africa

Aid and Reform in Africa
Author: Shantayanan Devarajan
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 724
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780821346693

Finally, when the country enters the second generation of reforms, such as public sector institutional reform, short-term, conditionality-based aid can once again be harmful - by reducing ownership, participation, and sustainability of the reform process."--BOOK JACKET.

Eastern and Western Ideas for African Growth

Eastern and Western Ideas for African Growth
Author: Kenichi Ohno
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2013-05-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136778721

The West and the East approach economic development differently. The Europeans and Americans stress free and fair business climate, promoting private activities generally without picking winners, and improving governance. East Asia is interested in achieving concrete results and projects rather than formal correctness, prioritizing a few sectors for industrialization, and eventual graduation from aid. The West mostly shapes shifting strategies of the international donor community while the East has in reality made remarkable progress in industrial catch-up. The two approaches cannot be merged easily but they can be used in proper combination to realize growth and economic transformation. This book proposes more dialogue and complementarity between the two in the development effort of Africa and other regions. In this collected volume, contributed by experts and practitioners from both East and West, the need to introduce Eastern ideas to the global development strategy is emphasized. Analysis of British and other Western donor policies is given while Japanese, Korean, and other Asian approaches are also explained with concrete examples. The concept of governance for growth is presented and the impact of rising China on development studies is contemplated. The practices of industrial policy dialogues and actions assisted by East Asian experts are reported from Tunisia, Zambia, Ethiopia, Rwanda, and others. The book should be applicable to all donors, institutions, NGOs and business enterprises engaged in development cooperation.

Challenging Aid in Africa

Challenging Aid in Africa
Author: Zoe Marriage
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2019-06-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1349737909

This is a startling and controversial investigation into the international assistance given to countries at war. Marriage points to the similarities in the psychological and political dimensions of international aid and the violence this assistance is supposed to relieve. Looking at the "game" that large aid organizations play by appealing to a moral argument of rights and principles, this book investigates the gap between principle and practice in humanitarian assistance in Africa.

Germany's Africa Policy Revisited

Germany's Africa Policy Revisited
Author: Ulf Engel
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9783825859855

Although Germany has been a major international player in Africa ever since West Germany's readmission to international politics after 1955, surprisingly little has been written about this topic, and even less reliable knowledge has been established. This study poses the need for a review of Germany's relations with the African continent over the past decades. It challenges scholars to fill the factual gaps that characterize the state of research so far. Ulf Engel is associate professor of politics in Africa at the Institute of African Studies, University of Leipzig. Robert Kappel is professor of politics and economics at the Institute of African Studies, University of Leipzig.

Internally Displaced People

Internally Displaced People
Author: Janie Hampton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2014-10-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136547053

The number of internally displaced people far outnumbers estimated refugees who have fled their countries. The majority of displaced populations survive with very little security or legal protection. Responding to the needs of internally displaced people is one of the greatest humanitarian challenges of our time.;Revised and updated from the first edition, this volume includes information on internal displacement in 47 different countries across the globe - that is to say all countries experiencing conflict-induced displacement at the time of publication. There is discussion of the causes of displacement, patterns of flight, protection concerns and international response.

A Decade of Aid to the Health Sector in Somalia, 2000-2009

A Decade of Aid to the Health Sector in Somalia, 2000-2009
Author: Emanuele Capobianco
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2011
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0821387693

This study reviews trends in aid provided to the health sector in Somalia over 2000–2009. It is a testimony to the commitment of donors and implementers who have relentlessly tried to improve the dire health situation of millions of Somalis. At the same time, this study is a wake-up call for all donors and implementers. Have donors been generous enough? Have millions of dollars been invested in the most efficient way to maximize results? Did donors choose the right priorities? Did they stay the course? Did they learn from their own mistakes?The answers are mixed. Donors stepped up their contributions over the decade: some new financiers came, some others left, but overall, financial support has been constantly increasing. Emergencies took up 30 percent of the overall funding, thus demonstrating the impact on the health sector of man-made and natural disasters. Only 20 percent was allocated for horizontal programs, with increasing funds over the last part of the decade. Vertical programs dominated aid financing for health: in the case of AIDS, TB, and malaria, the generous funding of the last years of the decade do not appear justifiable. Malnutrition, EPI, and reproductive health programs never got the attention they deserved. The key conclusion of this study is that donors’ funding for public health in Somalia over the past decade could have been used more strategically. Better coordination among donors, local authorities, and implementers is now needed to avoid the mistakes of the past and to ensure that priority setting for future interventions is more evidence based and more results oriented.

Renewing Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Renewing Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Deryke Belshaw
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2005-06-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134528531

Renewing Development in Sub-Saharan Africa reviews the debates and brings together specialist contributions, to provide a clear guide to the major complexities of African development. They lay the foundation for designing a range of individual country-specific policy-sets, in which the strategic components are prioritized according to each country's constraints and opportunities. The emphasis of the book is on the identification of effective strategies that will enable individual countries to most effectively exploit their growth opportunities and to meet poverty-reducing and other key equity objectives.

The Pattern of Aid Giving

The Pattern of Aid Giving
Author: Eric Neumayer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2003-04-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134428790

Using econometric analysis, the author examines factors that determine patterns of aid giving including aggregate aid flows, aid from multilateral organisations and aid from bilateral donors such as Germany, Japan, the US and Arabia.