How can we conceptualise the politics of aid and account for the effects of internationally-driven poverty reduction policies in the Global South? This Working Paper offers a conceptual framework that goes beyond two common assumptions in the academic literature and the activist milieux: on the...

How can we conceptualise the politics of aid and account for the effects of internationally-driven poverty reduction policies in the Global South? This Working Paper offers a conceptual framework that goes beyond two common assumptions in the academic literature as well as advocacy and activist...

List of Contributors; Abbreviations; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction: South-South Cooperation Beyond the Myths-A Critical Analysis; The Rise and Fall of SSC; SSC Rises Again? Potential, Expectations, and Myths during the 2000s; Contemporary SSC: The Existing Literature...

</titre> <alinea/> This paper examines the trajectories and uses of the concepts and policy instruments promoted by the World Bank in Mali. Building on a multidisciplinary approach, it shows that these are contested notions in the ?strategic arena? of international aid, and lead to competing understandings,...

Mali is a landlocked country in francophone West Africa that ranked 175th (out of 177) in the United Nations Human Development Index in 2006. Its economy is mostly based on agriculture, and is marked by a high dependence on external assistance. However, the democratization process began in 1991,...

Mali is a landlocked country in francophone West Africa that ranked 175th (out of 177) in the United Nations Human Development Index in 2006. Its economy is mostly based on agriculture, and is marked by a high dependence on external assistance. However, the democratization process began in 1991,...