Outputs (2)

Introduction: Aid and sovereignty (2009)
Book Chapter
Whitfield, L., & Fraser, A. (2009). Introduction: Aid and sovereignty. In L. Whitfield (Ed.), The politics of aid: African strategies for dealing with donors (1-26). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199560172.003.0001

A coalition of priests, politicians, and pop-stars are campaigning to ‘make poverty history’. They claim that rich countries have a responsibility to provide the money to do so. As a result, international development policy now has a higher public pr... Read More about Introduction: Aid and sovereignty.

Aid-recipient sovereignty in historical context (2009)
Book Chapter
Fraser, A. (2009). Aid-recipient sovereignty in historical context. In L. Whitfield (Ed.), The Politics of Aid: African Strategies for Dealing with Donors (45-73). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199560172.003.0003

The previous chapter laid out a series of challenges to the rational actor model that has been widely used to analyse aid negotiations. It argued that the strategies recipients adopt in aid negotiations are heavily constrained by factors that go well... Read More about Aid-recipient sovereignty in historical context.