African Economics and the Politics of Permanent Crisis
By J. Widner. 2004
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Subfields: Anthropology
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- Foreign aid and governance in Africa (2016, unknown): “Third, the role of ‘multinational organizations’ and ‘growth models’ in mishandling ‘aid policy adjustments’ (Alesina & Dollar, 2002; Burnside & Dollar, 2000; Van de Walle, 2001; Easterly, 2005b).”
- Economic and Security Regionalism among Patrimonial Authoritarian Regimes: The Case of Central Asia (2009, background): “These groups are understood to be independent of government elites, thus minimising the possibility for conflict of interest, rent-seeking and corruption (van de Walle 2001, pp. 23–27).”
- Donor fragmentation and bureaucratic quality in aid recipients (2004, background): “In several cases, high-level officials left government to create NGOs in order to receive donor support that had once gone to the official’s ministry (van de Walle 2001: 165).”
- A Triumph of Realism over Idealism? Cooperation Between the European Union and Africa (2005, background): “In practice, the political regimes in contemporary Africa vary enormously, spanning a spectrum from autocratic dictatorship to elected governments seeking to improve democracy (Van de Walle 2001).”
- The institutional economics of foreign aid (2006, unknown): “…countries in 2000 was 23 (Acharya et al. 2003) and the typical African recipient is provided by “some thirty official donors in addition to several dozen international NGOs....through over thousand distinct projects and several hundred resident foreign experts” (van de Walle, 2001, p. 58).”
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