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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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Horning, Nadia Rabesahala |
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Conference:
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Survival of the Commons: Mounting Challenges and New Realities, the Eleventh Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property |
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Location:
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Bali, Indonesia |
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Conf. Date:
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June 19-23, 2006 |
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Date:
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2006 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/2242
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Sector:
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Social Organization |
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Region:
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Africa |
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Subject(s):
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IASC
governance and politics
conservation
economic development
foreign aid
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Abstract:
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"Although the Malagasy state's ability to meet its developmental and environmental conservation goals has remained weak since independence, Madagascar has never suffered a shortage of foreign assistance. What explains such weak development and environmental performance despite steady inflows of foreign aid? By the same token, why has aid continually come to Madagascar despite the state's weak performance? Building on the scholarship linking foreign aid and development, I examine how the Malagasy state has adapted its development rhetoric since independence, capitalizing on the country's biodiversity starting in the mid- 1980s, to show that maximizing foreign aid rather than strengthening the state's development capacity per se has been the state's de facto primary goal. I further argue that without foreign aid both the state and donor organizations would cease to thrive as institutions. Given the similarities between Madagascar and other aid-recipient countries, this analysis should prove useful beyond the Malagasy case."
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