Development Research And Development Aid

Author : Stephen Brown
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773587090

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Struggling for Effectiveness by Stephen Brown Pdf

The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) allocates vast sums of money each year, providing vital assistance to countless individuals across the developing world. Yet many observers and insiders have sharply criticized CIDA for its lack of concrete results. Presenting a range of work by scholars and practitioners, this collection offers the most comprehensive examination of CIDA's efforts in over a decade. Contributors explore recent trends in Canadian foreign aid, including topics such as its place in Canadian politics, gender and security concerns, advocacy and public engagement, the complexity of CIDA policies, and CIDA's relationship with non-governmental organizations. The perspectives assembled in Struggling for Effectiveness bring clarity to the issue of foreign aid while judiciously gauging Canada's record and offering concrete suggestions for strengthening CIDA's efforts to help people living in poverty. Extensively researched and comprehensive in scope, Struggling for Effectiveness will be indispensable to anyone interested in Canadian assistance abroad and Canada's place in a rapidly changing world. Contributors include Stephen Baranyi (University of Ottawa), David Black (Dalhousie University), Elizabeth Blackwood (Simon Fraser University), Stephen Brown (University of Ottawa), Dominique Caouette (Université de Montréal), Adam Chapnick (Canadian Forces College), Denis Côté (Canadian Council for International Cooperation), Molly den Heyer (Dalhousie University), Nilima Gulrajani (Oxford University), Hunter McGill (University of Ottawa), Anca Paducel (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva), Rosalind Raddatz (University of Ottawa), Ian Smillie (independent scholar and consultant), Veronika Stewart (Simon Fraser University), and Liam Swiss (Memorial University of Newfoundland).

Author : Bruce Currie-Alder
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191060632

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Research for the Developing World by Bruce Currie-Alder Pdf

Research for the developing world can generate evidence on the effectiveness of foreign aid, invent new technologies that serve poor people, and strengthen research capabilities in poor countries. How do countries determine which of these policy goals to pursue? Examining the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia reveals how each country established a unique approach to research funding. Programs and grantmaking evolved in response to various expectations across government, tempered by the need to remain credible in the scientific community. This book explores the histories of the UK Department for International Development (DFID), Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC), and the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). Looking back, changes in research governance encouraged a shift towards whole-of-government priorities, shorter timeframes for realizing results, and performance predicated on academic productivity and research impact. Whereas funders used to encourage 'small is beautiful' with local experiments in development, today the emphasis is on 'getting to scale' delivering innovation through self-financing models. Looking forward, research for the developing world is fading as part of development assistance, yet rising as collaboration on common global challenges. Funders are adopting new definitions of performance and actively shaping policy to connect science and international development. Leaders are brokering partnerships that connect research governance at home and abroad, bridging the incentives towards academic productivity and research impact. In short, the future of research for the developing world is moving from foreign aid to science diplomacy.

Author : Carola Betzold,Florian Weiler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319645100

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Development Aid and Adaptation to Climate Change in Developing Countries by Carola Betzold,Florian Weiler Pdf

This book examines development aid for climate change adaptation. Increasing amounts of aid are used to help developing countries adapt to climate change. The authors seek to discover how this aid is distributed and what constitutes the patterns of adaptation-aid giving. Does it help vulnerable countries, as donors promise, or does it help donors achieve economic and political gains? Set against the backdrop of international climate change negotiations and the aid allocation literature, Betzold and Weiler’s empirical analysis proceeds in three steps: firstly they assess adaptation aid as reported by the OECD, then statistically examine patterns in adaptation aid allocation, and finally qualitatively investigate adaptation aid in three large climate donors: Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom. With its mixed-method research design and comprehensive data, this work provides a unique, state-of-the-art analysis of adaptation aid as a new stream of development aid.

Author : Nabamita Dutta,Claudia R. Williamson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030221218

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Lessons on Foreign Aid and Economic Development by Nabamita Dutta,Claudia R. Williamson Pdf

A response to the pressing need to address and clarify the substantial ambiguity within current literature, this edited volume aims to deepen readers’ understanding of the impact of foreign aid on development outcomes based on the latest findings in research over the past decade. Foreign aid has long been seen as one of two extremes: either beneficial or damaging, a blessing or a curse. Consequently, many readers perceive aid’s effectiveness based on the work of scholars who are assessing the impact of aid from one of two antithetical perspectives. This book takes a different approach, shedding light on recent research that can deepen our understanding of the complex relationship between aid and its aftereffects. Drawing from an extensive set of studies that have explored micro and macro impacts of foreign aid for recipient nations, chapter authors highlight more layered and nuanced findings, with a focus on donor characteristics, political motives, and an evaluation of aid projects and their effectiveness, including the differential impact based on type of aid. This volume is the first of its kind to unpack aid as a complex rather than a unitary concept and explore the wide areas of grey that have long enshrouded foreign aid.

Author : Dean T. Jamison,Hellen Gelband,Susan Horton,Prabhat Jha,Charles N. Mock,Rachel Nugent
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781464805288

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Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 9) by Dean T. Jamison,Hellen Gelband,Susan Horton,Prabhat Jha,Charles N. Mock,Rachel Nugent Pdf

As the culminating volume in the DCP3 series, volume 9 will provide an overview of DCP3 findings and methods, a summary of messages and substantive lessons to be taken from DCP3, and a further discussion of cross-cutting and synthesizing topics across the first eight volumes. The introductory chapters (1-3) in this volume take as their starting point the elements of the Essential Packages presented in the overview chapters of each volume. First, the chapter on intersectoral policy priorities for health includes fiscal and intersectoral policies and assembles a subset of the population policies and applies strict criteria for a low-income setting in order to propose a "highest-priority" essential package. Second, the chapter on packages of care and delivery platforms for universal health coverage (UHC) includes health sector interventions, primarily clinical and public health services, and uses the same approach to propose a highest priority package of interventions and policies that meet similar criteria, provides cost estimates, and describes a pathway to UHC.

Author : Ian Goldin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198736257

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Development by Ian Goldin Pdf

What is development -- How does development happen? -- Why are some countries rich and others poor? -- What can be done to accelerate development? -- The evolution of development aid -- Sustainable development -- Globalization and development -- The future of development.

Author : George Mavrotas
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191573842

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Foreign Aid for Development by George Mavrotas Pdf

Foreign aid is one of the few topics in the development discourse with such an uninterrupted, yet volatile history in terms of interest and attention from academics, policymakers, and practitioners alike. Does aid work in promoting growth and reducing poverty in the developing world? Will a new 'big push' approach accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals or will another opportunity be missed? Can the lessons of almost half a century of aid giving be learnt? These are truly important questions in view of the emerging new landscape in foreign aid and recent developments related to the global financial crisis, which are expected to have far reaching implications for both donors and recipients engaged in this area. Against this shifting aid landscape, there is a pressing need to evaluate progress to date and shed new light on emerging issues and agendas. This volume brings together leading aid experts to review the progress achieved so far, identify the challenges ahead, and discuss the emerging policy agenda in foreign aid. A central conclusion of this important and timely volume is that, since development aid remains crucial for many developing countries, a huge effort is needed from both donors and aid recipients to overcome the inefficiencies and make aid work better for poor people. After all, as global citizens, we have a moral obligation to do the best we can to lift people out of poverty in the developing world. The findings of this book will be of considerable interest to professionals and policymakers engaged in policy reforms in foreign aid, and provide an essential one-stop reference for students of development, international finance, and economics.

Author : Thomas Carothers,Diane de Gramont
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780870034022

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Development Aid Confronts Politics by Thomas Carothers,Diane de Gramont Pdf

A new lens on development is changing the world of international aid. The overdue recognition that development in all sectors is an inherently political process is driving aid providers to try to learn how to think and act politically. Major donors are pursuing explicitly political goals alongside their traditional socioeconomic aims and introducing more politically informed methods throughout their work. Yet these changes face an array of external and internal obstacles, from heightened sensitivity on the part of many aid-receiving governments about foreign political interventionism to inflexible aid delivery mechanisms and entrenched technocratic preferences within many aid organizations. This pathbreaking book assesses the progress and pitfalls of the attempted politics revolution in development aid and charts a constructive way forward. Contents: Introduction 1. The New Politics Agenda The Original Framework: 1960s-1980s 2. Apolitical Roots Breaking the Political Taboo: 1990s-2000s 3. The Door Opens to Politics 4. Advancing Political Goals 5. Toward Politically Informed Methods The Way Forward 6. Politically Smart Development Aid 7. The Unresolved Debate on Political Goals 8. The Integration Frontier Conclusion 9. The Long Road to Politics

Author : A. Sumner,R. Mallett
Publisher : Springer
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137298881

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The Future of Foreign Aid by A. Sumner,R. Mallett Pdf

Sumner and Mallett review the literature on aid in light of shifts in the aid system and the increasing concentration of the world's poor in middle-income countries. As a consequence, they propose a series of practical, policy relevant options for future development cooperation, with the aim of provoking discussion and informing policy.

Author : Olav Stokke
Publisher : Springer
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030062194

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International Development Assistance by Olav Stokke Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive search for the basic political drivers of international development cooperation, based on the policy and performance of the OECD countries from the early 1960s to the present. The author focuses on the stated and implemented policies of the four so-called frontrunners and the Western hegemon, scrutinizing the changing trends in the justifications, objectives and guidelines set for the policy and their evolving performance vis-à-vis the international ODA target. Through extensive research, the work examines predominant world-views, societal value systems and foreign policy traditions, in order to find the policy drivers that vary nation to nation and how development assistance has evolved globally.

Author : Finn Tarp,Peter Hjertholm
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415215463

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Foreign Aid and Development by Finn Tarp,Peter Hjertholm Pdf

Aid has worked in the past but can be made to work better in the future. This book offers important new research and will appeal to those working in economics, politics and development studies as well as to governmental and aid professionals.

Author : Clark C. Gibson,Krister Andersson,Elinor Ostrom,Sujai Shivakumar
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199278848

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The Samaritan's Dilemma by Clark C. Gibson,Krister Andersson,Elinor Ostrom,Sujai Shivakumar Pdf

The authors argue that much of foreign aid's failure is related to the institutions that structure its delivery. They offer concrete suggestions about how to improve aid's effectiveness.

Author : Micheline Beaudry,Chris M. Cook,International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 9780889368835

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Japan's System of Official Development Assistance by Micheline Beaudry,Chris M. Cook,International Development Research Centre (Canada) Pdf

Japans System of Official Development Assistance

Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : The Centre
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040402310

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With Our Own Hands by International Development Research Centre (Canada) Pdf

Author : Pradip K. Ghosh
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1984-09-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039761585

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Foreign Aid and Third World Development by Pradip K. Ghosh Pdf

Reference book on trends in foreign aid policy, evaluating the economic implications of development aid, 1975-84 - reviews various aspects of external financing of economic development, external debt, development policy issues and options; explains the role of OECD and World Bank; makes suggestions for monetary transfer, popular participation in rural development, etc.; includes a directory of information sources. Annotated bibliography, statistical tables.