Foreign Aid and the Future of Africa

• Main Author: Kalu, Kenneth (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: African Histories and Modernities
• Subjects: Africa-History.; Africa-Economic conditions.; Africa-Politics and government.; Economic development.; African History.; African Economics.; African Politics.; Development Studies.

During the past five decades, sub-Saharan Africa has received more foreign aid than has any other region of the world, and yet poverty remains endemic throughout the region. As Kenneth Kalu argues, this does not mean that foreign aid has failed; rather, it means that foreign aid in its current form...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Foreign Aid and Poverty in Africa
• 2. The Postcolonial African State Revisited
• 3. Africa in the Global Community
• 4. The Structure of Foreign Aid to Africa since the 1960s
• 5. Foreign Aid: How far and how well?
• 6. Targeting the Fundamentals: Towards a new form of development assistance to Africa
• 7. Development Assistance Redesigned
• 8. The State and Economic Development
• 9. Explaining Africa's Underdevelopment
• 10. Conclusion.