EAN: 9783319389356

DEVELOPMENT AID AND SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC GROWTH...

This book offers an original analysis of the long-term impact of western and Chinese economic
and development cooperation policies in Africa. It argues that western Official Development
Assistance (ODA) has failed to create viable and autonomous economies in beneficiary countries
not (only) because of corruption  inefficiencies and cultural differences  but because it was
never meant to do so. Raudino demonstrates  rather  that it was always designed to provide
relief measures and nurture political relations rather than create genuinely industrialized and
self-reliant economies. Similarly  by analyzing the nature of Chinese economic investments in
Africa the author shows that China's governmental policies hardly represent a revolutionary
departure from the cooperation standards set by the West. In making these observations he also
taps into the broader question of why wealth continues to be generated unequally across the
world. Based on extensive fieldwork  quantitative economic analysis and historical qualitative
research  this thought-provoking work will appeal to students and scholars of politics 
economics and development studies  as well as to those involved more directly in the aid
process.

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