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Re-Inventing Africa's Development
Author: Jong-Dae Park
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-12-31
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 3030039463
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This open access book analyses the development problems of sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) from the eyes of a Korean diplomat with knowledge of the economic growth Korea has experienced in recent decades. The author argues that Africa's development challenges are not due to a lack of resources but a lack of management, presenting an alternative to the traditional view that Africa's problems are caused by a lack of leadership. In exploring an approach based on mind-set and nation-building, rather than unity – which tends to promote individual or party interests rather than the broader country or national interests – the author suggests new solutions for SSA's economic growth, inspired by Korea's successful economic growth model much of which is focused on industrialisation. This book will be of interest to researchers, policymakers, NGOs and governmental bodies in economics, development and politics studying Africa's economic development, and Korea's economic growth model.
Public Procurement Regulation in Africa
Author: Sue Arrowsmith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-01-17
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 1107028329
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines the regulatory rules on public procurement in selected African countries and provides a comparative analysis of key regulatory issues.
Low Intensity Democracy
Author: Barry K. Gills
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 280
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Dead Aid
Author: Dambisa Moyo
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2009-03-17
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0374139563
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Debunking the current model of international aid promoted by both Hollywood celebrities and policy makers, Moyo offers a bold new road map for financing development of the world's poorest countries.
U.S.-related Corporate Trusts in South Africa
The Delusion of Knowledge Transfer
Author: Koch, Susanne
Publisher: African Minds
Published: 2016-12-13
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 1928331394
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With the rise of the ‘knowledge for development’ paradigm, expert advice has become a prime instrument of foreign aid. At the same time, it has been object of repeated criticism: the chronic failure of ‘technical assistance’ – a notion under which advice is commonly subsumed – has been documented in a host of studies. Nonetheless, international organisations continue to send advisors, promising to increase the ‘effectiveness’ of expert support if their technocratic recommendations are taken up. This book reveals fundamental problems of expert advice in the context of aid that concern issues of power and legitimacy rather than merely flaws of implementation. Based on empirical evidence from South Africa and Tanzania, the authors show that aid-related advisory processes are inevitably obstructed by colliding interests, political pressures and hierarchical relations that impede knowledge transfer and mutual learning. As a result, recipient governments find themselves caught in a perpetual cycle of dependency, continuously advised by experts who convey the shifting paradigms and agendas of their respective donor governments. For young democracies, the persistent presence of external actors is hazardous: ultimately, it poses a threat to the legitimacy of their governments if their policy-making becomes more responsive to foreign demands than to the preferences and needs of their citizens.
The Palgrave Handbook of Development Cooperation for Achieving the 2030 Agenda
Author: Sachin Chaturvedi
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 733
ISBN-13: 3030579387
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This open access handbook analyses the role of development cooperation in achieving the 2030 Agenda in a global context of 'contested cooperation'. Development actors, including governments providing aid or South-South Cooperation, developing countries, and non-governmental actors (civil society, philanthropy, and businesses) constantly challenge underlying narratives and norms of development. The book explores how reconciling these differences fosters achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. Sachin Chaturvedi is Director General at the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), a New Delhi, India-based think tank. Heiner Janus is a researcher in the Inter- and Transnational Cooperation programme at the German Development Institute. Stephan Klingebiel is Chair of the Inter- and Transnational Cooperation programme at the German Development Institute and Senior Lecturer at the University of Marburg, Germany. Xiaoyun Li is Chair Professor at China Agricultural University and Honorary Dean of the China Institute for South-South Cooperation in Agriculture. Prof. Li is the Chair of the Network of Southern Think Tanks and Chair of the China International Development Research Network. André de Mello e Souza is a researcher at the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA), a Brazilian governmental think tank. Elizabeth Sidiropoulos is Chief Executive of the South African Institute of International Affairs. She has co-edited Development Cooperation and Emerging Powers: New Partners or Old Patterns (2012) and Institutional Architecture and Development: Responses from Emerging Powers (2015). Dorothea Wehrmann is a researcher in the Inter- and Transnational Cooperation programme at the German Development Institute.
Profiles of Donors Supporting Environment and Development Initiatives in Southern Africa
The Size and Scope of the Non-profit Sector in South Africa
Author: Mark Swilling
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 120
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book discusses the results of the study about the non-profit sector in South Africa. The study was conducted by the Institute of Policy Studies at John Hopkins University in the United States and the Graduate School of Public and Development Management (P&DM) at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. An agreement between these institutions five years ago led to the launch of the South African Non-Profit Sector Study at P&DM, in association with an international comparative study based at the Center for Nonprofit Studies at Johns Hopkins University. The intention was to produce information on the entire South African non-profit sector following a standard format which would allow comparisons to be made with the non-profit sectors of other countries.
