Challenges of cooperation for development

A case‐study analysis of Cuban health solidarity programmes in Nigeria

Bibliographic Data

ID21594147
AuthorsMouzayian Khalil‐Babatunde (0000-0001-8156-9845, Department of Politics and International Studies University of Warwick Coventry UK, corresponding author), Stéphanie Panichelli‐Batalla (Department of Global Sustainable Development, School for Cross‐faculty Studies University of Warwick Coventry UK)
Year2023
Volume35
Issue7
Pages1833-1851
Publication date2023-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of International Development (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0954-1748 • E-ISSN: 1099-1328
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/jid.3752
OpenAlexW4319595339
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited26

Cuba has long‐standing development partnerships with many African countries. In Nigeria, this includes medical staff training, interventions in malaria disease and death. Using a two‐tiered analytical framework and elite interviews, we problematise ideological conceptualisation of development and its praxis, particularly capability and willingness to explore alternative approaches or partnerships for development. We argue that what occurs between rhetoric and reality of this case is characteristic of entrenched structural and operational dynamics to layers of institutionalised development agenda‐setting sustained by international development policy regimes. This research highlights the need to explore alternative development approaches that engender mutually beneficial and equal partnerships

Capacity development · Economic growth · Economics · Elite · Environmental resource management · Ideology · International development · Political science · Politics · Praxis · Public relations · Rhetoric · Sociology · Solidarity · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Cuban History and Society · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Public Administration

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