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Make Schools, Not War? Donors' Rewriting of the Social Contract in the DRC
Author(s) -
De Herdt Tom,
Titeca Kristof,
Wagemakers Inge
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
development policy review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.671
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1467-7679
pISSN - 0950-6764
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-7679.2012.00594.x
Subject(s) - state (computer science) , investment (military) , democracy , social contract , population , political science , rewriting , economic growth , psychological intervention , private sector , political economy , public administration , labour economics , economics , sociology , law , politics , medicine , demography , algorithm , psychiatry , computer science , programming language
The school being one of the most important ‘faces’ of the state at the local level in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, investment in education can play an important role in reconstructing the social contract between the population and the state after violent conflict. However, this is particularly difficult since the state has largely retreated from the education sector since the 1980s, and education is now organised through public‐private partnerships with religious networks. Moreover, schools have been turned into tax units, in response to the retreat of the state and the declining wages of school administrators. This has had a clear effect on donor interventions, which, instead of changing the current system, have become part of existing configurations and led to an expansion of the current system.