Since independence India has deployed its soft power in Africa, with educational aid and capacity-building at the heart of its Africa policy. However, following economic liberalisation and in a quest for greater global influence, India's geopolitics have changed. The country's discourse on...

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This paper revisits the research origins of one well-known claim which has been used in policy documents over the past 25 years, namely that four years of education increase agricultural productivity. The oversimplification of the original research findings has influenced funding patterns of aid...

This article explores the relationships between the new aid architecture, influenced by the Paris Declaration, and exemplified in Ghana by its new Aid Policy and Strategy, and the much longer policy history of donor–Government of Ghana relations in the fields of education and training. The Aid...