Overview
Give and Take looks at local drug manufacturing in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, from the early 1980s to the present, to understand the impact of foreign aid on industrial development. While foreign aid has been attacked by critics as wasteful, counterproductive, or exploitative, Nitsan Chorev makes a clear case for the effectiveness of what she terms ""developmental foreign aid.""Against the backdrop of Africa's pursuit of economic self-sufficiency, the battle against AIDS and malaria, and bitter negotiations over affordable drugs, Chorev offers an important corrective to popular views on foreign aid and development. She shows that when foreign aid has provided markets, monitoring, and mentoring, it has supported the emergence and upgrading of local production. In instances where donors were willing to procure local drugs, they created new markets that gave local entrepreneurs an incentive to produce new types of drugs. In turn, when donors enforced exacting standards as a condition to access those markets, they gave these producers an incentive to improve quality standards. And where technical know-how was not readily available and donors provided mentoring, local producers received the guidance necessary for improving production processes.Without losing sight of domestic political-economic conditions, historical legacies, and foreign aid's own internal contradictions, Give and Take presents groundbreaking insights into the conditions under which foreign aid can be effective.
Full Product Details
Author: Nitsan Chorev
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Imprint: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691197852
ISBN 10: 0691197857
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 10 December 2019
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""Honorable Mention for the Best Scholarly Book, Global and Transnational Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association"""
"""Honorable Mention for the Best Scholarly Book, Global and Transnational Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association"" ""“A much needed sociological perspective on foreign aid that fundamentally shifts the terms of the debate.”—Robert Wyrod, Contemporary Sociology"""
Honorable Mention for the Best Scholarly Book, Global and Transnational Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
Give and Take provides a powerful analysis into the possibilities of using foreign aid to spur industrial development. Chorev intervenes in the debates over aid effectiveness by bringing sociological insights to bear on the subject. This clearly argued book resets the agenda for research on foreign aid and stands to rejuvenate the field in a more effective direction. -Amy A. Quark, author of Global Rivalries Drawing on a broad range of sources and displaying an impressive expertise on pharmaceutical markets, Chorev examines the conditions under which foreign aid successfully stimulates local industrial development. The clarity and conceptualization of Chorev's claims, as well as the sound empirical basis of her work, make this book a towering contribution to discussions about the state, aid, development, and public health. -Monika Krause, London School of Economics and Political Science
Author Information
Nitsan Chorev is the Harmon Family Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs at Brown University. She is the author of The World Health Organization between North and South and Remaking U.S. Trade Policy.
