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| Title: | Aid and Potential Conditionalities in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Author: | Sadie, Yolanda |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Periodical: | South African Journal of International Affairs |
| Volume: | 9 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Period: | Summer |
| Pages: | 57-68 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Subsaharan Africa |
| Subjects: | democracy development cooperation Development and Technology Economics and Trade international relations |
| External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10220460209545377 |
| Abstract: | Prior to the late 1970s, few conditionalities were attached to aid allocations. In the early 1980s reforms of economic policy, largely in the shape of structural adjustment programmes, were demanded. In the 1990s, in the wake of the continued lack of economic success in Africa and the end of the Cold War, political conditions, largely in the form of demands for good governance and democracy (definitions of which were left conveniently vague) appeared. The main point of this article is to try to discover to what extent donors are actually consistent in applying their demands. The answer is sought in an analysis of Official Development Assistance (ODA) flows from bilateral and multilateral donors, and in a country-by-country analysis of Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Côte dÍvoire, Ethiopia, Uganda, Ghana, and Kenya. The straight answer seems to be that there is no consistency when it comes to checking the extent to which conditionalities are observed, leading to support for the assumption of Claude Ake (1995) that political conditionality is little more than another way of exercising power, valued for its own ends. Bilateral aid seems to depend heavily on the economic and strategic interests of the donors. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
