The Delusion of Knowledge Transfer : The Impact of Foreign Aid Experts on Policy-making in South Africa and Tanzania
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...
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African Minds
2016
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