Aid and Influence: Patronage, Power and Politics Browne Stephen
Aid and Influence: Patronage, Power and Politics Browne Stephen This book turns the argument about aid effectiveness on its head. Its subjective nature means that its impact on development is often…
Specifikacia Aid and Influence: Patronage, Power and Politics Browne Stephen
Aid and Influence: Patronage, Power and Politics Browne Stephen
This book turns the argument about aid effectiveness on its head. Its subjective nature means that its impact on development is often weak, mainly short-term and confined to limited and specific contexts.Aid as influence was prevalent during the Cold War era. Since development assistance is inherently self-interested, a source of soft power, political manipulation and commercial opportunity, its real effectiveness could arguably be judged by the strength of donor influence and not by development impact.
Influence permeates both bilateral and multilateral aid and in parallel with official aid, the rise of global The connection is equally strong in this century's newly bipolar world in which the contest is between western donors led by the United States, and China which is spending hundreds of billions of dollars on infrastructure as a means of influence in the global South.
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