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Rethinking Hyden’s Development Fund Model: A Critique and Suggestions for Modification

by Olatunde J.B. Ojo Introduction Goran Hyden’s proposal (1993; 1995; and reprinted in this issue) for national politically autonomous development funds opens up a much needed debate about the causes of alleged aid decline to Africa and what can be done to increase aid and to make it more effective. At its core, Hyden’s National […]

Development Fund Model

by Goran Hyden Introduction* The purpose of this paper is to introduce a novel proposal for how foreign aid can be made more productive in the current context of sub-Saharan Africa. The basic assumption is that foreign aid must be adapted to the specific challenges in these countries: high levels of external dependency; weak public […]