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Africa Journal of Management

Routledge eBooks, Nov 18, 2022

The Political Economy of Bilateral Aid

Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics

Data gathered in Samoa before and after the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic on 11 March 2020... more Data gathered in Samoa before and after the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic on 11 March 2020 compare and contrast the nature and extent of ‘structural violence’ perpetrated by ‘egoistic’ bilateral development assistance. Despite much higher risks and costs to aid recipients than under normal circumstances, during the pandemic, donor control in ‘increasingly detailed and encompassing ways’ and donor use of ‘technical discourse’ to conceal ‘hidden purposes of bureaucratic power or dominance’ both increased significantly. Pandemic-induced opportunistic abandonments by donor governments of neoliberal policy principles did not ameliorate such structural violence. Individual differences among donor officials affected how control was exercised and whether host-government ‘ownership’ and ‘leadership’ of development assistance was flouted peremptorily, or denied more subtly and politely (with ‘warm regards’); and they influenced the volume and complexity of ‘interpretive labour’ require...

In his famous solution of the transformation proble m, Bortkiewicz assumed that gold served as me... more In his famous solution of the transformation proble m, Bortkiewicz assumed that gold served as measure of values and prices, and hence i ts transformation factor, denoted by , had to be equal to 1. But he also assumed that gold was produced in the department operating with the smallest organic composition of capital in the economy. The result was that only one of Marx’s two fundamental equalities was satisfied: the sum total of profits was equal to the sum total of surplus-values, but t he sum total of prices (of production) was greater than the sum total of values. Thereby, after Bortkiewicz, the transformation problem was redefined: it did no longer consist in elucidating the profit rate equalisation process, nor in answering the contradiction alleged ly involved in having prices diverging from values, but in trying to obtain the aforesaid equalities simultaneously. It has been argued that the monetary issue is a decisive aspect in this discussion. This paper sustains that Bortkie...