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Congo Masquerade: The Political Culture of Aid Inefficiency and Reform Failure
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Congo Masquerade: The Political Culture of Aid Inefficiency and Reform Failure
Current price: $25.95
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Congo Masquerade: The Political Culture of Aid Inefficiency and Reform Failure
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Congo Masquerade is about mismanagement, hypocrisy and powerlessness in what has proved to be one of Africa's most troublesome and volatile states. In this scathing study of catastrophic aid inefficiency, Trefon argues that whilst others have examined war and plunder in the Great Lakes region, none have yet evaluated the imported 'template format' reform package pieced together to introduce democracy and improve the well-being of ordinary Congolese. It has, the book demonstrates, been for years 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.