Agencies in Foreign Aid: Comparing China, Sweden and the United States in Tanzania

by Goran Hyden (Editor), Rwekaza Mukandala (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349149841
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/1999
Edition description:	1st ed. 1999
Pages:	246
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

List of Tables List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Studying Foreign Aid Organizations: Theory and Concepts; G .Hyden & R.Mukandala From Proud Defiance to Beggary: A Recipient's Tale; R.Mukandala An Agency Under Siege: US Aid and its Mission in Tanzania; S.L.Snook Giving Aid on the Recipient's Terms: The Swedish Experience in Tanzania; O.Elgstrom From Proletarian Internationalism to Mutual Development: China's Cooperation with Tanzania, 1965-1995; A.Ping Foreign Aid Agencies 1961-1995: A Comparative Assessment; G.Hyden & K.Mease Index