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More and more governments in Africa and elsewhere, buckle under the strain of economic crisis, structural adjustment, declining legitimacy, and civil war.International aid has traditionally assumed the existence of stable, sovereign states, capable of making policy. In a number of developing countries, this is no longer the case. The big donor agencies have usually responded by suspending development aid and substituting some kind of emergency or relief assistance. Joanna Macrae shows from her on the ground investigations that relief and development aid are very distinct processes and cannot be merged in practice. Where the public authorities are weak, aid becomes highly fragmented, often inadequate in scale, and certainly not capable of leading to locally sustainable programmes. The international aid system, she concludes, faces real dilemmas and remains ill-equipped to respond to the peculiar challenges of quasi-statehood that characterize chronic political emergencies and their aftermath.
Contents:
Introduction and overview
- aid, war and the state - 1945 - 1989
- aid beyond the state - the emergence of a new aid orthodoxy
- the context of recovery - an overview of war and its impact in Cambodia, Ethiopia and Uganda
- aid in a vacuum - the legitimacy dilemma
- the sustainability dilemma.
Brief Description:
More governments in Africa and elsewhere, buckle under the strain of economic crisis, structural adjustment, declining legitimacy, and civil war. International aid assumes stable states capable of making policy, but this book shows how ill-equipped it is to deal with forms of quasi-statehood.
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