Koch: The Delusion of Knowledge Transfer
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Koch: The Delusion of Knowledge Transfer

The Impact of Foreign Aid Experts on Policy-making in South Africa and Tanzania

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Koch: The Delusion of Knowledge Transfer

The Impact of Foreign Aid Experts on Policy-making in South Africa and Tanzania

About this book

With the rise of the ƫknowledge for developmentƭ 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 ƫtechnical assistanceƭ Ʊ a notion under which advice is commonly subsumed Ʊ has been documented in a host of studies. Nonetheless, international organisations continue to send advisors, promising to increase the ƫeffectivenessƭ 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.

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Information

Publisher
African Minds
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781928331391
eBook ISBN
9781928331414
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Global Development Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of tables
  6. List of figures
  7. List of abbreviations
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction Perpetuating dependence: Expert advice as tool of foreign aid
  10. Chapter 1: Knowledge transfer to young democracies: Issues of legitimacy, sovereignty, and efficacy
  11. Chapter 2: Accessing the world of development aid: Study design and fieldwork
  12. Chapter 3: South Africa and Tanzania: Two different types of ā€˜donor darlingsā€™
  13. Chapter 4: Multiple actors, colliding interests: The main players of the aid game
  14. Chapter 5: Intricacies of expert advice in the aid context
  15. Chapter 6: Retaining autonomy of agenda-setting in dealing with advice: Structural conditions
  16. Chapter 7: The impact of expert advice on policy-making in young democracies: Sector studies
  17. Chapter 8: There is no substitute for local knowledge: Summary and conclusion
  18. References
  19. Appendix