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Reinventing Foreign Aid.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (580 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262272124
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reinventing Foreign AidDDC classification:
  • 338.9109172/4
LOC classification:
  • HC60.R353 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction: Can't Take It Anymore? -- 2 Making Aid Work -- 3 Use of Randomization in the Evaluation of Development Effectiveness -- 4 It Pays to Be Ignorant: A Simple Political Economy of Rigorous Program Evaluation -- 5 Solutions When the Solution Is the Problem: Arraying the Disarray in Development -- 6 Donors and Service Delivery -- 7 The Illusion of Sustainability -- 8 An Aid-Institutions Paradox? A Review Essay on Aid Dependency and State Building in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 9 Why Do Aid Agencies Exist? -- 10 Absorption Capacity and Disbursement Constraints -- 11 Donor Fragmentation -- 12 The IMF and Economic Development -- 13 The Knowledge Bank -- 14 Debt Relief and Fiscal Sustainability for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries -- 15 Making Vaccines Pay -- 16 Can We Build a Better Mousetrap? Three New Institutions Designed to Improve Aid Effectiveness -- 17 Competing with Central Planning: Marketplaces for International Aid -- 18 Placing Enterprise and Business Thinking at the Heart of the War on Poverty -- 19 Avoid Hubris: And Other Lessons for Reformers -- 20 Seven Deadly Sins: Reflections on Donor Failings -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: Top experts in the field discuss how to improve the effectiveness of foreign aid, proposing practical solutions to specific problems rather than a utopian master plan.
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction: Can't Take It Anymore? -- 2 Making Aid Work -- 3 Use of Randomization in the Evaluation of Development Effectiveness -- 4 It Pays to Be Ignorant: A Simple Political Economy of Rigorous Program Evaluation -- 5 Solutions When the Solution Is the Problem: Arraying the Disarray in Development -- 6 Donors and Service Delivery -- 7 The Illusion of Sustainability -- 8 An Aid-Institutions Paradox? A Review Essay on Aid Dependency and State Building in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 9 Why Do Aid Agencies Exist? -- 10 Absorption Capacity and Disbursement Constraints -- 11 Donor Fragmentation -- 12 The IMF and Economic Development -- 13 The Knowledge Bank -- 14 Debt Relief and Fiscal Sustainability for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries -- 15 Making Vaccines Pay -- 16 Can We Build a Better Mousetrap? Three New Institutions Designed to Improve Aid Effectiveness -- 17 Competing with Central Planning: Marketplaces for International Aid -- 18 Placing Enterprise and Business Thinking at the Heart of the War on Poverty -- 19 Avoid Hubris: And Other Lessons for Reformers -- 20 Seven Deadly Sins: Reflections on Donor Failings -- Contributors -- Index.

Top experts in the field discuss how to improve the effectiveness of foreign aid, proposing practical solutions to specific problems rather than a utopian master plan.

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