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Does foreign aid really work? /
Foreign aid is now a $100bn business and is expanding more rapidly today than it has for a generation. But does it work? Indeed, is it needed at all? Other attempts to answer this important question have been dominated by a focus on the impact of official aid provided by governments. But today possi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of boxes
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1. 'A good thing?'
- pt. 1. The complex worlds of foreign aid
- 2. The origins and early decades of aid-giving
- Defining aid
- A snapshot of the history of aid
- The origins of aid : the pre-1949 era
- The 1950s to the 1960s
- 3. Aid-giving from the 1970s to the present
- The 1970s and 1980s
- From the 1990s to today
- 4. The growing web of bilateral aid donors
- The ever-increasing number of donors
- The explosion in the numbers of non-governmental organizations
- The main bilateral donors
- The smaller bilateral donors
- 5. The complexities of multilateral aid
- What is multilateral aid and how much of it is there?
- The international financial institutions
- The United Nations, development and aid
- Other multilateral agencies
- Systemic issues.
- pt. 2. Why is aid given?
- 6. The political and commercial dimensions of aid
- Why governments give aid
- Politics and national self-interest in aid-giving
- Commercial interests in aid-giving
- The overall impact of political and commercial influences on aid
- Concluding comments
- 7. Public support for aid
- Trends in public support
- The reliability of public opinion surveys
- Public support for aid and public perception of its effectiveness
- 8. Charity or duty? The moral case for aid
- Facts on the ground
- Ethical theories and approaches
- 9. The moral case for governments and individuals to provide aid
- Donor governments : current and evolving views
- Aid and the nature of governments' moral obligations
- Ethics, voluntary aid-giving and the world of NGOs
- pt. 3. Does aid really work?
- 10. Assessing and measuring the impact of aid
- Methodological challenges and data-gaps
- Judging the impact and performance of aid : what questions need to be asked?
- Understanding how aid contributes to growth and development
- Expectations about the impact of aid.
- 11. The impact of official development aid projects
- Project aid : an overview
- Detailed project performance
- Data quality and the sustainability of official aid projects
- The wider picture
- Summing up
- 12. The impact of programme aid, technical assistance and aid for capacity development
- Programme aid
- Technical assistance
- Aid for capacity building
- 13. The impact of aid at the country and cross-country level
- The country-level impact of aid
- The impact of official development aid across countries
- 14. Assessing the impact of aid conditionality
- Aggregate aid impact and the policy environment
- Official donor conditionality and recipient response
- Does policy conditionality produce the results intended?
- Summing up
- 15. Does official development aid really work? A summing up
- The search for sustainability
- Effectiveness does matter
- 16. NGOs in development and the impact of discrete NGO development interventions
- NGOs : an overview
- Methodological challenges
- The impact of NGO development projects and programmes
- Cost-effectiveness, quality, innovation and replication
- Capacity development and institutional strengthening.
- 17. The wider impact of non-governmental and civil society organizations
- NGO advocacy, lobbying, awareness-raising and campaigning
- Strengthening NGOs and strengthening civil society
- The contribution of NGOs to development : a summing up
- 18. The growth of emergencies and the humanitarian response
- Emergencies and disasters : an overview
- The humanitarian aid response
- 19. The impact of emergency and humanitarian aid
- Assessing humanitarian aid
- The impact of humanitarian action and humanitarian aid
- Advocacy in humanitarian action
- Emergency and humanitarian aid : a summing up
- pt. 4. Towards a different future for aid
- 20. Why aid isn't working
- Systematic impediments to aid effectiveness : problems caused by donors
- Problems at the recipient end : aid dilemmas
- Conclusion
- 21. Making aid work better by implementing agreed reforms
- The discrete individual-donor approach
- The step-change international cooperative approach
- Taking stock
- 22. Making aid work better by recasting aid relationships
- Confronting the politics of aid-giving
- Recasting aid relationships
- Making aid work better : addressing five key problem areas
- Bridging the divide between ideas and implementation
- Notes
- References
- Index.