Fragility, Aid, and State-Building: Understanding Diverse Trajectories by Rachel M Gisselquist

Author:Rachel M Gisselquist [Gisselquist, Rachel M]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781315115344
Google: Z_CUtAEACAAJ
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-01-15T09:19:33+00:00

The politics of foreign assistance in Ghana and South Korea

As articulated by Leftwich, development is an ‘inescapably political’ process that requires the central role of the state.14 Foreign aid should also be understood as a political process, because aid packages, especially structural adjustment loans, often inevitably involve profound changes in the use, production and distribution of resources or, in other words, the politics of recipient countries.

Many scholars have further highlighted the importance of an ‘effective state’ in achieving growth and development as well as aid success. In general the state is responsible for making and implementing policies to achieve growth, and often the capacity and commitment of the state in devising and enforcing these policies are critical to the pace and extent of development in a country. How, then, can state effectiveness be achieved in its absence? In what ways does foreign aid help or hinder state reform? In what follows, through a comparative case study of Ghana and South Korea, we discuss the impact of aid on domestic politics and state transformation.

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