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Assessing the impact of foreign aid : value for money and aid for trade /
Assessing the Impact of Foreign Aid: Value for Money and Aid for Trade provides updated information on how to improve foreign aid programs, exploring the concept and practice of impact assessment within the sometimes-unproblematic approaches advocated in current literature of value for money and aid...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Academic Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Author Biographies; Preface; Chapter 1
- Official development assistance and impact assessment
- theoretical and practical frameworks; Introduction; Aid, ODA, and resource flows to the developing world; Background to foreign aid; Contemporary debates, aid effectiveness, value for money, and aid for trade; Aid effectiveness; Value for money; Aid, development, results, and impact; Conclusion; References; Chapter 2
- Conceptualizing impact assessment in foreign aid; Introduction; Results and impact.
- The evolution of impact assessmentImpact assessment in theory and practice; Transparency and accountability; Ex-ante and Ex-post IA; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3
- Competing development paradigms and alternative evaluations of aid effectiveness: challenging the dominant neoliber ... ; Introduction; A political economy background; The quest for modernization: the neoclassical foundations; Dissenting voices from the south: the challenge of the dependency theory; Basic needs; The rise of neoliberalism: globalization and development theory.
- The global financial crisis and emerging challenges to neoliberalismConcluding thoughts: toward a new development paradigm and a new role for aid; References; Chapter 4
- Aid for trade: A critical analysis; Introduction; Unpacking "aid for trade" within a context of ODA; The increased quest for accountability; AfT from theoretical underpinnings to conceptualization; A critique of AfT; Trade not aid; Critique of the neoliberal ODA agenda; Toward a paradigm shift in AfT; Paradigm shift: AfT as a subset of VfM; Around and around; back to assessing impact and aid for trade; Conclusion.
- Reporting, accountability, and (impact) evaluationLesson learning and application; An evolving context?; Looking forward; The implications for aid investments and the framing of results; The implications for impact assessment; Conclusion; References; Chapter 6
- Beyond aid distribution: Aid effectiveness, neoliberal and neostructural reforms in Pacific Island Countries; Introduction; Overview of development aid; Economic reforms in pics: key issues; The limitations of economic reforms; Case study 1: Sovi basin conservation area in Fiji.