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The delusion of knowledge transfer : the impact of foreign aid experts on policy-making in South Africa and Tanzania
2016,2017
Overview
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 – has been documented in a host of studies. Nonetheless, international organisations continue to send advisors, promising to increase the ‘effectiveness’ of expert support if their technocratic recommendations are taken up. This book reveals fundamental problems of expert advice in the context of aid that concern issues of power and legitimacy rather than merely flaws of implementation. Based on empirical evidence from South Africa and Tanzania, the authors show that aid-related advisory processes are inevitably obstructed by colliding interests, political pressures and hierarchical relations that impede knowledge transfer and mutual learning. As a result, recipient governments find themselves caught in a perpetual cycle of dependency, continuously advised by experts who convey the shifting paradigms and agendas of their respective donor governments. For young democracies, the persistent presence of external actors is hazardous: ultimately, it poses a threat to the legitimacy of their governments if their policy-making becomes more responsive to foreign demands than to the preferences and needs of their citizens.
Publisher
African Minds,African Books Collective
Subject
/ Developing & Emerging Countries
/ Economic assistance -- Developing countries
/ JBSL1 Ethnic groups and multicultural studies
/ Social groups, communities and identities
/ Society and culture: general
/ Tansania
/ Technical assistance -- Developing countries
/ Technical assistance -- South Africa
ISBN
1928331394, 9781928331391, 9781928331414, 1928331416, 9781928331407, 1928331408
