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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2017
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.