This article critiques the predominant opinion that aid undermines the sovereignty of African
states. This claim implies not only that a recipient state's policy autonomy is curtailed by …

Introduction spending priorities has done more harm than good, overriding national
sovereignty, damaging democracy, and displacing local concerns and solutions. To the …

Chapter 2 showed how aid donors worked through the 1980s to develop a conditionality
regime designed to influence the economic policies of aidreceiving countries. Through the …

Since 1999, Mali has become a laboratory for the implementation of the Paris Declaration in
West francophone Africa. However, the much-wanted recipient ownership is very weak …

This article presents a new analytical approach to the study of aid negotiations. Building on
existing approaches but trying to overcome their limitations, it argues that factors outside of …

Why, despite decades of high levels of foreign aid, has development been so disappointing
in most of Sub-Saharan Africa, leading to rising numbers of poor and fueling political …

The rise of the BRICS as 'donors' and the resulting changes in development cooperation are
part of a broader transition in the world economic order, as power seeps out of the …

What is foreign aid? This deceptively simple question has not been adequately addressed
because aid scholars have tended to emphasize practitioners' concerns and thus have …

For more than three decades, a key feature of Africa, and African relations with the outside
world, has been the aid relationship. In recent years, donors have given high priority to using …

The development industry has been criticised recently from very diverse quarters. This book
is a nuanced and original investigation of Northern donor agency personnel as they deliver …