British aid to Africa: a changing agenda?
This article focuses on the changes in British economic assistance to sub-Saharan Africa, its historic logic, policy and practice. The study also analyzes the two main contextual factors, namely, Cold War concerns and pressures from the international donor community. There have been a number of shif...
| Publicado en: | Third World Quarterly Vol. 17; no. 3; pp. 487 - 503 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=9610280484&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 9610280484 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 01436597 TWQ jtl: Third World Quarterly issn: 01436597 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Sep96 vid: 17 iid: 3 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 9610280484 10.1080/01436599615470 ppf: 487 ppct: 16 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 193KB tig: atl: British aid to Africa: a changing agenda? aug: au: Cumming, Gordon D. affil: lecturer, School of European Studies, University of Wales, PO Box 908, Cardiff CF1 3Y Q, Wales su: International economic assistance International economic relations Economic policy Cold War, 1945-1991 Sub-Saharan Africa United Kingdom sug: subj: Sub-Saharan Africa United Kingdom International economic assistance International economic relations Economic policy Cold War, 1945-1991 keyword: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, ORGANIZATIONS, AND POLICY ab: This article focuses on the changes in British economic assistance to sub-Saharan Africa, its historic logic, policy and practice. The study also analyzes the two main contextual factors, namely, Cold War concerns and pressures from the international donor community. There have been a number of shifts in Britain's development agenda since the fall of the Berlin Wall. These include the merging, in 1994, of the budgetary lines for aid to traditional developing countries and the new assistance programme to the former Soviet bloc; the dilution of the development programme by unprecedented levels of spending on environmental protection, gender issues and population control and the increasing share of the budget devoted to emergencies, peace-keeping and above all multilateral assistance. Clearly a shift--towards political conditionality--did take place in the British development agenda in the early 1990s. Ultimately, however, as neither of these factors were central to aid policy formulation, they were insufficient in themselves to bring about any sudden overhaul of the program or to overturn the forces for continuity shaping that program since the Cold War period. It could perhaps be argued first that, as the Government's rhetoric has not been matched by actual practice and as sanctions were initially more visible than rewards. Whatever happens, Britain's aid relations with Africa cannot now, after political conditionality and democratization, return to the status quo ante. Clearly then the future of Britain's Africa program is hard to predict. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Third World Quarterly is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Third World Quarterly holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 1996 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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