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Assessing the Role of Foreign Aid, Donors and Recipients

Year: 2018

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: This chapter focuses on the role of foreign aid and takes issue with the intellectual circles’ habit of criticizing aid and blaming donors. In order to get to the heart of the matter, the author asks a simple but a thought-provoking question: ‘Who is to be blamed?’ He moves beyond the pros and cons of aid to highlight the real dynamism that underlies this issue, to make plain that, while the limitations of foreign aid are obvious, aid is only a means to an end. Concepts like ‘reciprocal compliance’ are used to show the interactive nature of foreign assistance in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Source: Springer eBooks

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-03946-2_2

Author: Jong-Dae Park

Institution: Government of the Republic of Korea

Language: English

Topic: International Development and Aid

Subfield: Development

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Partnerships for the goals, Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W2907894869