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6. Conclusive Remarks

Author : Artan Karini

Published in: International Aid, Administrative Reform and the Politics of EU Accession

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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This chapter completes the conclusive discussion started in Chapter 5, intending to provide an alternative story in terms of understanding international aid in post-communist Albania. This book has reinforced the controversial and ambiguous nature of aid policy by demonstrating that when focused on regulatory frameworks and clustered with political processes such as EU accession, the policy learning it supports may occur but transfer per se may not be the outcome. However, as evidence from case of administrative reform and capacity building in Albania suggests, the root cause for the non-transfer is the national context characterised by an adversarial and polarised political culture, in which governing elites have attempted to use aid to their advantage perhaps at the cost of long-term development of the nation.

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Title: Conclusive Remarks
Author: Artan Karini
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: International Aid, Administrative Reform and the Politics of EU Accession
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-97833-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-97834-5

Copyright Year: 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97834-5_6