EXPATRIATE AID SALARIES IN MALAWI - A DOUBLY DEMOTIVATING INFLUENCE

Despite the rising cost of expatriate aid, we still know very little a bout its effectiveness, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Education is a major objective of technical cooperation, and at the University of Malawi we surveyed both locally paid Malawian (N = 29) and expatriate lecturers (N = 29). Malawians emphatically agreed that aid salaries de motivated local lecturers, while the expatriates may have been resolvi ng guilt about their greater pay by convincing themselves of their sup eriority, which could also result in their own demotivation. Aid salar y differentials might therefore be demotivating both host and expatria te lecturers. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.