Development Aid and Sustainable Economic Growth in Africa: The Limits of Western and Chinese Engagements

by Simone Raudino

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319389351
• ISBN13: 9783319389356
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.7"