Putting our House in Order Recasting G8 policy towards Africa
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"Putting our House in Order offers fascinating new insights into the politics of G8 African policies on aid, debt, trade and arms sales and is innovative in its able establishment of the long-missing causality of the ineffectiveness of G8 development aid to Africa. For these reasons, it is essential reading for anyone involved with development policy, and presents a welcome new hope for African development and the potential for Africa to realise the promise of the Millennium Declaration"
-Development Policy Review
Putting Our House in Order is the most rigorous analysis yet of G8 policy failings towards Africa, including:
- The misuse of aid and conditionality
- Unfair trade rules
- Arms proliferation
- Corruption and conflict financing
- Climate change.
Arguing that the real obstacles to better policy towards Africa are not technical but political, the authors propose new mechanisms for placing Africa's interests higher on the international political agenda and making G8 countries accountable for the impact of their policies. They show that the best thing G8 countries can do is to change those aspects of their existing policies that damage and disadvantage the continent.
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