Foreign Funded Infrastructural Development and State Legitimacy in Sub-Saharan Africa

What effect does foreign funded infrastructural development have on state legitimacy? Billions of dollars are expended on engineering the state by donors, multilateral banks, and governments in developing countries but does it have an effect on state legitimacy? This research intends to answer this question with a qualitative approach that assesses the impact of infrastructural projects funded by the World Bank and the Chinese government

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Graduate Institute Geneva Institutional Repository (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies)
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2025-03-07
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International Development and Aid
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Foreign Funded Infrastructural Development and State Legitimacy in Sub-Saharan Africa

Graduate Institute Geneva Institutional Repository (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies)
International Development and Aid
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Foreign Funded Infrastructural Development and State Legitimacy in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Abstract

What effect does foreign funded infrastructural development have on state legitimacy? Billions of dollars are expended on engineering the state by donors, multilateral banks, and governments in developing countries but does it have an effect on state legitimacy? This research intends to answer this question with a qualitative approach that assesses the impact of infrastructural projects funded by the World Bank and the Chinese government

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