The political economy of bilateral aid: African development and the manufacture of consent

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Africa Journal of Management Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI:10.1080/23322373.2022.2155022

P. Blunt, Cecilia Escobar, Vlassis Missos

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This paper discusses implications for African development arising from our analysis of the political economy of bilateral aid (Blunt, 2023). We argue that the existential threats posed to life on Earth by global warming and nuclear war are a product of capitalist excess led by the neoimperialist countries of the West. Africans have long been, and remain, among the main victims of the capitalist rampage. As capitalism’s “smiling face”, bilateral aid facilitates the exploitation of developing countries. Management education in Africa is complicit because it contributes to the manufacture of consent. The prevention of nuclear and climate catastrophe subsumes African development and requires genuine collaboration between world powers and the abandonment of capitalism, which seem unlikely in the short-term. Nonetheless, African managers should be at the forefront of informed resistance from below, which can only be achieved if management education in the continent adopts a more critical disposition.

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双边援助的政治经济学:非洲的发展和同意的制造

本文讨论了我们对双边援助的政治经济学分析对非洲发展的影响(Blunt, 2023)。我们认为，全球变暖和核战争对地球生命构成的生存威胁是西方新帝国主义国家领导的资本主义过剩的产物。长期以来，非洲人一直是，而且仍然是资本主义横行的主要受害者之一。作为资本主义的“笑脸”，双边援助助长了对发展中国家的剥削。在非洲，管理教育是共谋的，因为它有助于制造共识。防止核灾难和气候灾难包括非洲的发展，需要世界大国之间的真正合作和放弃资本主义，这在短期内似乎不太可能。尽管如此，非洲的管理者应该站在下层知情抵抗的最前线，这只有在非洲大陆的管理教育采取更批判的态度时才能实现。

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Africa Journal of Management Business, Management and Accounting-Business and International Management

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2.80

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15.40%

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期刊介绍： The beginning of the Twenty First Century has witnessed Africa’s rise and progress as one of the fastest growing and most promising regions of the world. At the same time, serious challenges remain. To sustain and speed up momentum, avoid reversal, and deal effectively with emerging challenges and opportunities, Africa needs better management scholarship, education and practice. The purpose of the Africa Journal of Management (AJOM) is to advance management theory, research, education, practice and service in Africa by promoting the production and dissemination of high quality and relevant manuscripts. AJOM is committed to publishing original, rigorous, scholarly empirical and theoretical research papers, which demonstrate clear understanding of the management literature and draw on Africa’s local indigenous knowledge, wisdom and current realities. As the first scholarly journal of the Africa Academy of Management (AFAM), AJOM gives voice to all those who are committed to advancing management scholarship, education and practice in or about Africa, for the benefit of all of Africa. AJOM welcomes manuscripts that develop, test, replicate or validate management theories, tools and methods with Africa as the starting point. The journal is open to a wide range of quality, evidence-based methodological approaches and methods that “link” “Western” management theories with Africa’s indigenous knowledge systems, methods and practice. We are particularly interested in manuscripts which address Africa’s most important development needs, challenges and opportunities as well as the big management questions of the day. We are interested in research papers which address issues of ethical conduct in different African settings.