The political nature of aid in contemporary society is not easily a visible characteristic of daily reality. The institutionalisation of ‘rationally assessed and technically managed aid’ by international agencies generates and sustains an ideological position that obscures existing linkages between politics and policy in the making of development strategies. The following paper takes up the case of World Bank aid for primary education in India to illustrate the deceptively ‘neutral’ characterisation of aid in contemporary politics.
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