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The delusion of knowledge transfer : the impact of foreign aid experts on policy-making in South Africa and Tanzania /

With the rise of the 'knowledge for development' paradigm, expert advice has become a prime instrument of foreign aid. At the same time, it has been object of repeated criticism: the chronic failure of 'technical assistance' - a notion under which advice is commonly subsumed - ha...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Koch, Susanne (Autor), Weingart, Peter (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2017.
Cape Town, South Africa : African Minds, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction. Perpetuating dependence : expert advice as tool of foreign aid -- 1. Knowledge transfer to young democracies : issues of legitimacy, sovereignty, and efficacy -- 2. Accessing the world of development aid : study design and fieldwork -- 3. South Africa and Tanzania : two different types of 'donor darlings' -- 4. Multiple actors, colliding interests : the main players of the aid game -- 5. Intricacies of expert advice in the aid context -- 6. Retaining autonomy of agenda-setting in dealing with advice : structural conditions -- 7. The impact of expert advice on policy-making in young democracies : sector studies -- 8. There is no substitute for local knowledge : summary and conclusion. 
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