What is really at stake in the policy reform movement is the degree of intervention by donors and their ability to prescribe changes in African economies that will be effective and workable in improving the efficiency of resource use. The policy reform movement is distinguished from earlier aid conditioning in the scope of its intervention. It involves shifting economic resources and, by implication, political power among groups in African societies. - Carol Lancaster, writing in April 1985 for her Current History article, Africas Development Challenges. She was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Africa and Deputy Administrator of USAID for a number of years and has been the Dean of Georgetowns School of Foreign Service since 2010.
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