dc.contributor.author | Van der Elst, Herman | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-11-06T08:36:09Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-11-06T08:36:09Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Van der Elst, H. 2015. Collective foreign aid and development prospects for sub-Saharan Africa. New Contree : A journal of Historical and Human Sciences for Southern Africa. 72:97-119, Jul. [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/4969] | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0379-9867 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10394/14988 | |
dc.description.abstract | Since the end of the Second World War in 1945, the states of sub-Saharan
Africa have been subjected to a seemingly irreversible spiral of poverty as
well as social, political and economic unpredictability, causing continued
underdevelopment. This underdevelopment occurred despite the fact that
a total of $568 billion of bilateral and multilateral foreign aid have been
channelled to the region during the abovementioned period. This channelling
of foreign aid coincided with, and was motivated by decolonisation in the
post-Second World War dispensation, the Cold War dispensation, the energy
crisis of the 1970s, the post-Cold War dispensation, and the era of trade bloc
formation and expansion (global developmental time frames).
The most recent so-called “big push” initiative to kick start development
in the region was the adoption and implementation of the (pro-poor) eight
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the United Nations (UN) in
2000. This initiative was supported by the adoption of the G8, Gleneagles
commitment on aid and debt relief in 2005. From a global perspective, the
MDGs seem to be successful in poverty reduction efforts in specifically Asia
and South America. There is, however, consensus amongst most academics
and thinkers that the MDGs will not be met in sub-Saharan Africa before the
target date of 2015. The reality is that the levels of underdevelopment remain
high and are even escalating. In terms of relevance and scholarly contribution,
this article seeks to analytically describe and explain the presumed failure of
collective foreign aid, and suggests ways and means to stimulate development
in sub-Saharan Africa in the years to come. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University | en_US |
dc.subject | Sub-Saharan Africa | en_US |
dc.subject | Under Development | en_US |
dc.subject | Foreign Aid | en_US |
dc.subject | Poverty Trap | en_US |
dc.subject | Poverty | en_US |
dc.subject | New Conditionality | en_US |
dc.subject | Millennium Development Goals | en_US |
dc.subject | Gleneagles Agreement | en_US |
dc.subject | Mutual Cooperation | en_US |
dc.title | Collective foreign aid and development prospects for sub-Saharan Africa | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.contributor.researchID | 10076735 - Van der Elst, Herman Jacobus | |