... loans provided to governments or other entities in developing countries by governments or major multilateral institutions from developed countries in order to promote economic growth and human welfare. A lot of literature have springed arguing on the impact of the development aid on developing countries with some criticising it as a poverty entrenching facility whist some have supported development aid as it leads ... countries. For example of late the developed countries have used aid to force African countries to legalize homosexuality which is considered immoral per African tradition...

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... of people, what post-development thinkers mean is the rejection of what Matthews calls the post-World War II (WWII) development projects. Cognizant of the lack of post-development focused literature on African development, Matthews provides compelling evidence for post-development theorists to focus their attention on the failure of pWWII projects on the continent. As these projects see the ... African culture as inimical to their success, Matthews suggests that rather than changing these values, perhaps pWWII projects should be the ones to leave the stage. While traces of Western cultu...

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During the 1990s, literature on the international political economy was dominated by the idea of globalization. Dramatic decreases in transport costs and the rise of fast and cheap telecommunications technology have made geography less ... states find alternative ways to secure themselves from debt. Equally, though, such strategies are largely driven by relatively well-off and powerful middle-income countries in Latin American and Asia. African countries are more marginalized and have less chance of benefiting from globalization and may consequently look to more radical solutions. Conclusion...

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