{"id":672,"date":"2010-04-19T16:56:54","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T16:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/?p=672"},"modified":"2013-04-24T14:39:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T14:39:56","slug":"after-the-promises-re-thinking-uk-policy-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/after-the-promises-re-thinking-uk-policy-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"After the Promises: Re-thinking UK Policy in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" href=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/BN-1005-After-the-Promises.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-767\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Aid to Africa, aid effectiveness, budget, coalition government, democracy, DFID, Economics, Politics, regional institutions\" src=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/After-the-promises-NEW-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"Aid to Africa, aid effectiveness, budget, coalition government, democracy, DFID, Economics, Politics, regional institutions\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/After-the-promises-NEW-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/After-the-promises-NEW.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Coalition government in the UK is an opportunity to revise policy on Africa. More aid to Africa is touted as proof\u00a0of politicians\u2019 compassion and conscience. But an emerging cross-party consensus has ignored\u00a0significant policy failures. Democracy, trade, technology and regional integration are transforming Africa\u00a0\u2013 often in ways which policymakers did not anticipate. These notes argue that effective engagement\u00a0demands more coherent support for Africa\u2019s national and regional institutions, less grandiose ambition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/BN-1005-After-the-Promises.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1278\" title=\"Download PDF\" src=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/pdf_download_ari.png\" alt=\"Download PDF\" width=\"55\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coalition government in the UK is an opportunity to revise policy on Africa. More aid to Africa is touted as proof\u00a0of politicians\u2019 compassion and conscience. But an emerging cross-party consensus has ignored\u00a0significant policy failures. Democracy, trade, technology and regional integration are transforming Africa\u00a0\u2013 often in ways which policymakers did not anticipate. These notes argue that effective engagement\u00a0demands more coherent support for Africa\u2019s national and regional institutions, less grandiose ambition. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[83,85,197,196,63,198,26,27,199],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-briefing-notes","tag-aid","tag-aid-effectiveness","tag-budget","tag-coalition-government","tag-democracy","tag-dfid","tag-economics-in-publications","tag-politics-in-publications","tag-regional-institutions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Aid to Africa - Re-thinking UK Policy in Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"More aid to Africa is touted as proof of politicians\u2019 compassion and conscience. 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