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Agencies in Foreign Aid

Comparing China, Sweden and the United States in Tanzania

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About this book

In contrast to the bulk of the literature on foreign aid, which deals with it as an instrument of foreign policy or focuses on problems of implementation, this book examines the role of the aid agencies themselves, from a recipient's perspective, and provides longitudinal as well as comparative analysis. The principal aid agencies of China, Sweden and the United States began their operations in Tanzania simultaneously in the early 1960s but from very different ideological premises. Nonetheless, they all fell into operational traps that have limited the effectiveness of their contributions to Tanzanian development. The editors draw lessons about how foreign aid, if it is going to continue, needs to be reformed at the agency level.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Florida, USA

    Goran Hyden

  • Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

    Rwekaza Mukandala

About the editors

OLE ELGSTROM Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Lund, Sweden KENNETH MEASE Coordinator, Survey Research Program, Bureau of Economic and Business Research, College of Business Administration, University of Florida, and Fulbright Scholar, University of Dar es Salaam 1997-98 AI PING Research Fellow and Council Member, Chinese Association for International Understanding, Beijing STEPHEN SNOOK Country Director, International Foundation for Electoral Systems, Accra, Ghana

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Agencies in Foreign Aid

  • Book Subtitle: Comparing China, Sweden and the United States in Tanzania

  • Editors: Goran Hyden, Rwekaza Mukandala

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14982-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-14984-1Published: 01 January 1999

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-14982-7Published: 03 June 1999

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 246

  • Topics: Development Economics, Social Work, International Relations

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