4 - Foreign Aid: Policies, Institutions and the Dependency Culture
Corresponding Author(s) : Maia Green
Africa Review of Books,
Vol. 13 No. 2 (2017): Africa Review of Books, volume 13, n° 2, 2017
Abstract
The book under review is a significant contribution to the study of political economy and culture in contemporary Africa. The book seeks to understand the impact of international development interventions on culture, politics and society in Tanzania. Drawing on scholarly traditions of critical discourse and ethnographical analysis, the book draws heavily on the author’s anthropological research of well over a decade and his work as a development consultant in Tanzania to interrogate contemporary development idioms, imageries, institutions and practices. It focuses on explaining how inordinate dependence on foreign aid impacts the ideology, policy and institutional choices of recipient states as well
as the cultural orientations of the broad masses. Within a tightly packed 182 pages.
Keywords
- Action Aid, 2005, Real Aid: An Agenda for Making Aid Work, London: Action Aid UNECA, 2011, Economic Report on Africa 2011: Governing Development in Africa: The Role of the State in Economic Transformation, Addis Ababa: UNECA.
References
Action Aid, 2005, Real Aid: An Agenda for Making Aid Work, London: Action Aid UNECA, 2011, Economic Report on Africa 2011: Governing Development in Africa: The Role of the State in Economic Transformation, Addis Ababa: UNECA.