Doomed Interventions - The Failure of Global Responses to Aids in Africa

This book studies the misaligned priorities of donors and citizens in response to AIDS intervention in Africa.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. AIDS in Africa: a significant challenge and a disconnected response; 3. Principal-agent problems and AIDS interventions in Africa; 4. AIDS in Malawi; 5. Policy priorities in the time of AIDS; 6. Seeing like a village: headmen as agents of the global AIDS intervention; 7. Conclusion.

About the author

Kim Yi Dionne is Assistant Professor of Government at Smith College, Massachusetts. She collected much of the data for this book when she was a Fulbright Scholar in Malawi in 2008. She earned her Ph.D. in political science from University of California, Los Angeles, where she was a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellow in Swahili. Her work has been published in African Affairs, Comparative Political Studies, World Development, and other academic journals. She has also written essays for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy and is an editor for The Monkey Cage, a blog on politics and political science at The Washington Post.

Product details

• Authors: Kim Yi Dionne, Kim Yi (Smith College Dionne
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781107195592
• ISBN: 978-1-107-19559-2
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Africa, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Politics & government, United States of America, USA, Politics and government, Political Geography, Refugees & Political Asylum, Constitution: government and the state