ISBN:
978-1-4724-2674-1
Language:
English
Pages:
XVIII, 139 S.
Series Statement:
Contemporary African Politics
Keywords:
Ghana Entwicklung, wirtschaftliche
;
Politik
;
Regierung
;
Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
;
Entwicklungsprojekt
;
Entwicklung
Abstract:
Global development actors such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund claim that the shift to the poverty reduction strategy framework and emphasis on local participation address the social cost of earlier adjustment programs and help put aid receiving countries back in control of their own development agenda. Drawing on the case of Ghana, Lord Mawuko-Yevugah argues that this shift and the emphasis on partnerships between donors and poor countries, local participation, and country ownership represents a substantive departure from earlier versions of neo-liberalism and an attempt by global development actors and local governing and social elites to justify, and legitimize the neo-liberal policy paradigm. This book shows how the new architecture of aid has important implications in three distinct but related ways: the discursive construction and production of post-colonial societies; the changing focus of Western aid and development policy interventions; and the reproduction of the politics of inclusive exclusion. The author provides detailed and original research on the new development paradigm and develops a critical theoretical approach to re-think conventional analyses of the new discourses on aid reform whilst offering a fresh, alternative interpretation of changes in international aid relations.Review: 'Grapples with the conundrum of whether countries that depend heavily on international development aid can ever pursue truly nationally driven development strategies. A provocative analysis of how and why the global aid architecture has evolved since the 1980s, highlighting challenges posed for the people of Africa and for their governments.'Rod Alence, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : discourses on aid and development policy reform -- Developmentality : a postcolonial perspective on the new architecture of aid -- Africa and the new politics of international development cooperation -- Neoliberalism and the transformation of development policy in Ghana -- Civil society, participatory poverty reduction and neoliberal hegemony -- Conclusion : a new architecture of aid or new technologies of governance?
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