Political Science 3398F/G Lecture Notes - Statism, Participatory Democracy, Debt Relief
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Botswana full of praise for free markets reserved about western accomplishments and foreign aid - wants to give power back to africans: african tradition: decentralization as a political value. Participatory democracy, he wants to avoid the myths that democracy is foreign to them and that they received it from the west. Igos - dominated by western ideas that are in love with globalization etc and their actions are for fulfilling these needs which is not what african requires for further development. Loan forgiveness - assumed this would be carried out with igos they could have some leverage against leaders: mncs - relating it to the small entrepreneurial personal very difficult to do.