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Title:Good governance and aid in Africa
Author:MacAuslan, PatrickISNI
Year:1996
Periodical:Journal of African Law
Volume:40
Issue:2
Pages:168-182
Language:English
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:political systems
development cooperation
Abstract:If governments in Africa had shown a modicum of competence, honesty and democracy over the last 30 years, people in Africa would be a lot better off than they are now. In these circumstances, solutions to Africa's problems which call for more aid and more intervention from the outside would seem to be perverse. Instead, the author proposes that international involvement in Africa be drastically scaled back and in some cases cease altogether; that African countries, individually and collectively through regional organizations and the OAU, be left as far as possible to work out their own salvation in their own way, including if they so choose the use of armed force; and that a new deal on aid be developed which creates, via a legally binding international agreement, a concordat which ties aid to strict conditions on good governance, the ending of corruption, the reintegration into African countries of the diaspora of African intellectuals and professionals who have fled Africa in the last 30-odd years, and a phasing out of most government to government financial aid over the next decade. Bilateral donors too must put their own houses in order, through greater transparency on the policies and the administration of aid and tougher laws on corruption in donor countries. Notes, ref.
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