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In this short article, Dr Nimi Hoffman and colleagues from the University of South Africa and Erasmus University Rotterdam reflect on the call for aid to be used as a lever of regime change in Ethiopia.

We argue that this view rests on a story of aid dynamics in Ethiopia which is not supported by the evidence, and that the call for intensifying conditionalities returns us to the good governance agenda of structural adjustment, which did much to subvert deliberative governance across the global South. The people of Ethiopia in particular and the Horn in general, we contend, must be at the forefront of developing a lasting peace. This would likely require a developmental commitment to supporting state capacity and deliberative governance, not undermining it through external interference and conditionalities.

• Original article in the CODESRIA Bulletin
• Republished in the Review of African Political Economy, The Elephant, Developing Economics, and IDEAS
• On Sussex Elements 

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