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Aid to Africa: Redeemer or Coloniser?
Hakima Abbas, Yves Niyiragira
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Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the contributors
1 - Aid colonisation and the promise of African continental integration
Introduction
The persistence of underdevelopment in Africa
What is aid colonisation?
The infection of aid addiction
The donor argument against aid colonisation
A remedy to aid colonisation
Is NEPAD a form of aid colonisation?
Financing for development
Conclusion: towards an ethical aid paradigm
2 - The future of aid in North–South relations
Development aid, a Soviet innovation
The Millennium Development Goals and the Paris Declaration
The future of development aid
3 - Aid from a feminist perspective
Setting the parameters
Some definitions
Tracing a trajectory: WID and GAD
Difficult choices
Monterrey, Paris and Accra
Shifting tactics
4 - Africa battles aid and development finance
Aid trends
Diverting aid back home
Questioning the aid/debt dependency model
Ways out of the foreign aid and finance trap
Follow Latin America to financial and aid delinking
5 - Aid for development
Aid for what development?
From Paris to Accra
The weak rhetoric of the dominant aid discourse
Geo-economic, geopolitical and geostrategic aid
The contours of an aid alternative
An inventory of aid
Renewing South–South cooperation
6 - Aid and reparations: power in the development discourse
The aid illusion
The reparation obligation
Conclusion
7 - Post-9/11 aid, security agenda and the African state
Security
Security threats
The African state
Capacity improvement as security
Redefinition of security
Democratisation as security
Regionalism as security
Conclusion
8 - Africa: official development assistance and the Millennium Development Goals
Brief overview of the MDGs
External sources of financing for the MDGs
Alternative sources of financing
Conclusion
9 - Aid effectiveness and the question of mutual accountability
The Paris Declaration
Accountability and aid effectiveness
Mutual accountability and conditionality
Recommendations
10 - The European Development Fund or the illusion of assistance
Introduction
Regional trade agreements
The illusion of aid
Aid quantity
Aid quality
Aid for trade
Increase aid predictability
Budget or sector support
Provide more long term aid
Fully untie aid
Ensure greater policy coherence
Conclusion
11 - Africa’s new development partners: China and India–challenging the status quo?
Introduction
Defining China and India’s development assistance
Drivers of the aid system
Institutionalising the development assistance framework
What does this mean for Africa?
Conclusion: towards an effective aid partnership?
12 - Internal displacement, humanitarianism and the state: the politics of resettlement in Kenya post-2007
Introduction
Contextualising internal displacement in Kenya
Humanitarian response to the post-election violence
Conclusion
Aid to Africa: Redeemer or Coloniser?
Hakima Abbas, Yves Niyiragira
Aid to Africa: Redeemer or Coloniser?
