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| Title: | France's African Aid Policy: The End of an Era? |
| Author: | Conte, Bernard |
| Year: | 1997 |
| Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
| Volume: | 24 |
| Issue: | 71 |
| Pages: | 139-146 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Africa France |
| Subjects: | development cooperation international relations Economics and Trade |
| External links: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056249708704245 https://www.jstor.org/stable/4006402 |
| Abstract: | Unlike the other OECD countries, France has increased its overseas development aid in recent years. This is explained by the importance it accords its overseas commitments, particularly in Africa, which has remained a priority arena for French foreign policy. Most French aid is bilateral (and highly conditional). But increasingly, pressures are mounting for a reassessment of aid policy, with cost-effectiveness as a central concern. In future, French overseas aid will be redeployed towards selected 'emerging countries' with a view to expanding trade relations; aid to Africa will be reduced and concentrated on a few countries, notably Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroun, Congo, Gabon, Senegal, and South Africa. Both bilateral conditionality and commitments to non-project aid will be reduced in favour of greater coordination with other donors. These changes in strategy will be accompanied by reforms in the French aid machinery, designed to 'modernize' and streamline administration. The creation of an interministerial committee on aid and development in February 1996 is one important innovation; another is the larger role accorded to cooperation with NGOs. Bibliogr., note, sum. in French. |
