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Aid, Accountability, and Institution-Building in Ethiopia : a Comparative Analysis of Donor Practice

Year: 2013

Type: preprint

Abstract: Forty billion dollars of official development assistance during 1991-2012 reduced Ethiopian absolute poverty while underwriting more efficient but exclusionary public institutions. This aid-institutions paradox reflects a strong interest-alignment between major donors pursuing geostrategic objectives and poverty reduction, and a ruling-party seeking total institutional capture, fully-owned development programmes, and a developmental state with legitimizing poverty reduction. Disagreement on democratization predictably produced lackluster progress. By prioritizing adequate space for fundamental non-state stakeholders, a coalition of major donors can and must institutionalize accountability by conditioning scaled-up aid at least with respect for human rights and the rule of law.

Source: RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

Author: Berhanu Abegaz

Language: English

Topic: International Development and Aid

Subfield: Development

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Partnerships for the goals, No poverty, Peace, justice, and strong institutions, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

Funders: Styrelsen för Internationellt Utvecklingssamarbete, United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research

OpenAlex ID: W639994113

Cites: 5

Cited by: 3

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