“…The literature we reviewed revealed that these relationships may be differently scaled particularly when research involves donor-based funding. e.g., neocolonialism (Wickens & Sandlin, 2007); donor-control paradigm (Maclure, 2006); re/colonization (Choudry, 2009); intellectual dependence (Canagarajah, 2002;Bevington & Dixon, 2005) Power relations and politics (in a national level) e.g., power relations between donors and research parties, such as conflicts in interests and roles (Cranshaw, 1985;Fetterman, 1984;Samoff, 1996); power relations among different parties, such as between donors and government (Buchert, 2000;Hayman, 2007).…”