| | The debates initiated by the Global Coalition for Africa (GCA) took a particularly heated turn during the final hours of its November 1995 conference in the Dutch city of Maastricht. One African leader after another, responding to repeated exhortations from Northern donor representatives to 'take ownership' of their economic and political reform programmes, stood up to vent their frustrations over the exacting aid conditions often laid down by external financial institutions - and over African governments' limited ability to do anything but accept them. |
