Few of the projects had a positive "impact". We conclude that the securitized projects reviewed did not significantly strengthen the recipient countries' institutions, stability, or security but had some negative side effects. Policy Implications In view of the merger of DFID with the FCO and the...
Ma Zhaoxu, the Permanent Representative of China to the UN, said in his speech that the research report on agricultural development aid projects in African countries issued by China is a concrete measure to implement the results of the Beijing Summit of the ...
during the Beijing Summit of the China-Africa Cooperation Forum, President Hu Jintao announced the Eight Initiatives for China-Africa cooperation, under which the project was one of the key projects. The project has won a high reputation with its beautiful shape, excellent quality and amazing const...
excessive reliance on external aid may lead to African countries lacking autonomy in the formulation and implementation of educational policies, or even falling into the "aid trap." On the other hand, educational aid projects ...
By understanding aid projects as social relations that are characterized by hierarchy and efforts of reciprocity, gift perspectives help us to make tensions and contradictions in these encounters visible. While the relationship is one of inequality, these interventions are mediated. Local brokers have a...
of the exact size of China's aid program, since China rather underestimates the volume in official statistics, estimates on the basis of press releases, official announcements and assessments of major projects in Africa suggest that China has already overtaken the World Bank in lending to Africa....
No wonder Peter Bauer remarked that aid is “…an excellent method of transferring money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries”. This statement came on the wake of the proliferation of NGOs in developing countries, overcrowding of similar projects in an area, ...
At the global level, GEIDCO has been devoted to accelerating the GEI projects within the framework of the 2013 China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative, and expanding access to electricity in Africa is at the top of its agenda, said Wan Haibin, head of GEIDCO's development department. ...
Considering the mounting criticisms concerning Chinese aid practices, the present paper investigates whether Chinese aid projects fuel local-level corruption in Africa. To this end, we geographically match a new geo-referenced dataset on the subnational allocation of Chinese development finance projects to...
Aid Africa, a small UK charity, powerfully impacts Malawi’s rural areas by running an integrated group of projects, each tailored to local need, designed to empower communities and help individuals in our target group: orphans, the elderly, those living with disabilities and the AIDS-affected....