[governance] Re: Does Africa Need Help?

[Nyangkwe Agien Aaron]

Daniel

You hit the nail at th right point.

Aaron

On 6/19/08, Daniel Oppermann <dan.oppermann at gmail.com> wrote:
> I understood Stephane's comment in a different way. To me it seems that
> he put the finger on the fact that Northern (or Western or
> industrialized) countries do not spend money on development politics
> just because they are "nice" but because it serves their own interests.
>
> Development politics started during the Cold War to make sure who is on
> your side. For the reason of national interests today the financial
> flows go mainly to Asian and African countries almost ignoring poverty,
> civil war and the question of failing states in Latin America. Looking
> on the positive aspect: Latin American governments have to resolve their
> problems on their own or with regional support which is definitely
> better than waiting for someone to fix the problem.
>
> Here is an interesting paper about the effectiveness of aid politics:
>
> http://www.iadb.org/IDBDocs.cfm?docnum=1158725
>
>
>
> David Goldstein schrieb:
> > Stephane's comment is just like saying all African governments are
> incompetent and corrupt. It's partly true, it's changing, but definitely not
> always the case.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at internatif.org>
> > To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Nyangkwe Agien Aaron
> <nyangkweagien at gmail.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, 19 June, 2008 7:53:05 PM
> > Subject: [governance] Re: Does Africa Needs Help?
> >
> >
> >
> > > Some recipient governments grasp exactly what donors want to hear,
> > > readily agreeing to 'capacity building' programmes emphasising
> > > increased accountability. They dutifully echo the donor's jargon,
> > > while laughing behind our backs, and flicking through the latest
> > > Mercedes catalogue for their new ministerial limousine.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > A long paper to avoid the obvious conclusion: aid is not intended to
> > help the local people but to subsidize northern industries such as
> > Mercedes (as in the above example) or Cisco (to take a example closer
> > from our field). That way, most aid will come back to the North.
> >
> >
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