Easterly, William R. <br/><br/>
Reinventing Foreign Aid. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (580 pages) 
 - The MIT Press Series .
 - The MIT Press Series .
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780262272124 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Economic assistance -- Developing countries -- Evaluation.<br/>Economic development projects -- Developing countries -- Evaluation.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HC60.R353 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>338.9109172/4