Give and Take - Developmental Foreign Aid Pharmaceutical Industry in East Africa

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 ter

About the author

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.

Summary

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 ter

Foreword

A book that examines what type of aid can be beneficial for the development of local industrial production and under what local circumstances.
Note: This is a simultaneous release. Cloth edition: $95.00.

Additional text

"A much needed sociological perspective on foreign aid that fundamentally shifts the terms of the debate.—Robert Wyrod, Contemporary Sociology"

Product details

• Authors: Nitsan Chorev, Chorev Nitsan
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780691197852
• ISBN: 978-0-691-19785-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Princeton Studies in Global and Comparative Sociology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Sociology: customs & traditions, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Manufacturing, East Africa, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Political science & theory, Social and cultural anthropology, Political science and theory, Development economics & emerging economies, Manufacturing industries, Development economics and emerging economies