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Health Diplomacy or Health Dependency: A Critical Assessment of China’s Health Aid to Madagascar

by Paul Kadetz

Historically, foreign aid projects have long been criticized for creating dependency, prompting some critics to argue that normative foreign aid should be rejected by African recipients altogether for the seemingly inevitable outcomes of increased corruption and dependency.

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