Aid negotiation: the uneasy “partnership” between EPRDF and the donors

Feyissa, Dereje

doi:10.1080/17531055.2011.642541

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“…Based on this difference, the World Bank was reluctant to finance the large hydraulic projects set in motion by the Ethiopian government. As Feyissa (2012) has said, the presence of China and its readiness to provide development finance for infrastructural projects provided the Ethiopian government with policy space to develop its energy sector independently of the recommendations of the traditional partners. According to the Embassy of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in Ethiopia (2012), the former state minister for foreign affairs, Dr Tekeda Alamu, on a visit to China in 2010, highlighted this enlarged policy space by noting that China 'had made available to Africa, and the developing world, possibilities for consolidating sovereign choices and independently chosen paths of development'.…”

Section: China and Enlarged Policy Space In Africamentioning

confidence: 96%

Towards convergence and cooperation in the global development finance regime: closing Africa's policy space?

Kragelund

2015

Cambridge Review of International Affairs

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The revival of China's interest in Africa is often highlighted as being an opportunity to provide African governments with a choice between development partners that may strengthen negotiation leverage and thereby carve out policy space to define and implement policies that affect social and economic development. This article critically reviews the most recent developments in Chinese and Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) approaches to development finance to Africa. It argues that although we can detect a number of incidents that point towards more policy space for African governments, the revival of China's development finance does not fundamentally alter the power relations between African countries and their financiers, as the tendency now is towards convergence and cooperation between China and Development Assistance Committee (DAC) donors-not divergence and competition, which could have created policy space as it did prior to the end of the Cold War. This follows the trend of other 'emerging' donors who increasingly play by DAC rules and thereby minimize the future possibility of playing out one partner against the other.

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Section: China and Enlarged Policy Space In Africamentioning

confidence: 96%

Towards convergence and cooperation in the global development finance regime: closing Africa's policy space?

Kragelund

2015

Cambridge Review of International Affairs

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“…The EPRDF tried its best to remain committed to its ideological aspiration of building a socialist economy. To this end, the party pursued its revolutionary democracy ideology to remain the politically dominant player in the country while strategically engaging with western donors (Feyissa 2011). The strength of the EPRDF's ideological commitment was demonstrated by its determination not to relinquish state ownership of land and not to liberalise key sectors of the economy such as finance, telecoms, transport and energy.…”

Section: Transitional Status Of Youthmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…After the EPRDF came to power in 1991, the country was forced to implement structural adjustment programmes by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) (Demissie 2008;Feyissa 2011). Despite strong ideological resistance from the EPRDF not to reduce the state to an ideal 'night-watchman' status as the neoliberal policies would have required, there was a considerable escalation of privatisation (Stiglitz 2002).…”

Section: Transitional Status Of Youthmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Politics of Youth Employment and Policy Processes in Ethiopia

Gebremariam

2017

IDS Bulletin

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Policy processes are inherently shaped by political contexts. One way of identifying the impact of politics on policy processes is by examining how policy narratives and framings evolve through time. This article examines youth employment-focused policies in Ethiopia between 2004 and 2015. It argues that policy narratives and framings driving youth employment policy are directly derived from the developmental orientation of the incumbent Ethiopian regime. The 2005 post-election political crisis also played a major role in streamlining youth-focused policy processes.

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“…The EPRDF tried its best to remain committed to its ideological aspiration of building a socialist economy. To this end, the party pursued its revolutionary democracy ideology to remain the politically dominant player in the country while strategically engaging with western donors (Feyissa 2011 2012). To this end, the EPRDF-led government started to invest heavily to address urban youth employment, and to reduce youth marginalisation through the introduction of youth participation fora.…”

Section: Transitional Status Of Youthmentioning

confidence: 99%