Suchergebnisse

This study has endeavored to demonstrate that French decision-makers have been engaged in increasingly apparent policy of cultivating close political and economic ties with Zaire. During the Giscard d'Estaing administration, the French state most visibly attempted to implement a multifaceted Zairian policy. The means were of a commercial, financial, military, diplomatic and cultural nature

In this scathing study of catastrophic aid inefficiency, Trefon evaluates the imported template of reforms pieced together to introduce democracy and improve the wellbeing of the Congolese. He demonstrates that it has been an almost unmitigated failure due to the ingrained political culture of corruption amongst the Congolese elite, abetted by the complicity and incompetence of international partners