Agencies in Foreign Aid: Comparing China, Sweden, and the United States in Tanzania FROM THE PUBLISHER
In contrast to the bulk of the literature on foreign and, which deals with it as an instrument of foreign policy or centres on problems of implementing it effectively, this book examines the role of the aid agencies themselves. By starting from a recipient's perspective, and providing a longitudinal as well as comparative analysis, the contributors demonstrate the problems that these agencies have brought to foreign aid operations.
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Six contributions examine the problems that foreign aid agencies have brought to foreign aid operations. The principal aid agencies of China, Sweden, and the US are used to provide a review of organizations that began their operations in Tanzania simultaneously in the early 1960s, although from very different ideological premises. However, all fell into operational traps, the authors argue, that have limited the effectiveness of their contributions to Tanzanian development. Drawing on organizational theory, the editors conclude with observations about how foreign aid, if it is to continue, needs to be reformed at the agency level. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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