The World Bank uses a combination of financial and non-financial aid to influence educational reform in aid-recipient countries. Drawing on an interpretive policy analysis methodology and using Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic power as a ‘thinking tool’, this article aims to shed light on the Bank’s non-financial pathways of policy influence in the Ethiopian higher education policy space. Specifically, it identifies knowledge-based policy regulatory instruments of the Bank, including sector reviews, advisory activities, analytical reports and learning events. The key argument is that in order to understand the full extent of donor power in national education policy fields in sub-Saharan Africa, it is imperative to problematize less visible discursive means of policy imposition.

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教育援助、象征性权力和政策改革：世界银行在埃塞俄比亚

世界银行结合财政和非财政援助来影响受援国的教育改革。本文利用解释性政策分析方法并使用 Pierre Bourdieu 的符号权力概念作为“思维工具”，旨在阐明世行在埃塞俄比亚高等教育政策空间中的非金融政策影响途径。具体而言，它确定了世行基于知识的政策监管工具，包括部门审查、咨询活动、分析报告和学习活动。关键的论点是，为了全面了解撒哈拉以南非洲国家教育政策领域的捐助者权力，必须对不太明显的政策强加手段进行问题化。