Does Aid Work In India

Author : Michael Lipton,John Toye
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136889646

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Does Aid Work in India? by Michael Lipton,John Toye Pdf

Much about India's economy and aid flows has changed in the last two decades. India's growth rate has quickened since economic liberalisation, the poverty head count has fallen and the volume and composition of its aid have changed as new issues of climate change and the environment have emerged.. Yet Does Aid Work in India?, first published in 1990, remains of great interest as a study of aid effectiveness in India's pre-liberalisation era. It identifies those sectors where aid-funded interventions succeeded, and where they failed. It explains how India avoided problems of aid dependence, and managed the political tensions that are associated with aid policy dialogue. More generally, it contains a useful commentary on and criticism of donors' aid evaluation procedures at that time and it highlights donor efforts in the difficult area of institution building. Despite the passage of time, many of the insights from India's earlier experience remain highly relevant to key issues of development assistance today.

Author : Michael Lipton,John Toye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Economic assistance
ISBN : 0415071607

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Does Aid Work in India? by Michael Lipton,John Toye Pdf

How has India benefitted from 30 years of official aid programmes? Michael Lipton and John Toye examine the impact of foreign aid to developing countries, focusing on India as an example of an important recipient country. They evaluate the successes (and some undoubted failures) that foreign aid has contributed to the history of Indian development. Apart from examining the impact of aid at both the macroeconomic and microeconomic levels, they also give special attention to aid as a means of poverty alleviation, to evaluations of aid projects, and to the broader effects of aid on institutions and private sector markets.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0195211235

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Assessing Aid by Anonim Pdf

Assessing Aid determines that the effectiveness of aid is not decided by the amount received but rather the institutional and policy environment into which it is accepted. It examines how development assistance can be more effective at reducing global poverty and gives five mainrecommendations for making aid more effective: targeting financial aid to poor countries with good policies and strong economic management; providing policy-based aid to demonstrated reformers; using simpler instruments to transfer resources to countries with sound management; focusing projects oncreating and transmitting knowledge and capacity; and rethinking the internal incentives of aid agencies.

Author : Robert Cassen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008568763

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Does Aid Work? by Robert Cassen Pdf

The question of the effectiveness or counter-productivity of foreign aid is one of the great issues facing the world today. This volume arose from a study conducted for an inter-governmental task force. The team surveyed the published literature, reviewed existing evaluations of aid projects, and undertook seven detailed country studies. The basic finding is that the majority of aid succeeds in terms of its own objectives and obtains a reasonable rate of return. At the same time, this book analyses the frequent failings of aid projects, compares these failings with other forms of private and public investment, and proposes measures for improving aid effectiveness. New to this edition: For the second edition the book has been shortened, removing mainly the more technical parts. The data in the text and tables have been brought up to date, the text has been revised, and each chapter has a new section added reviewing the areas of debate and research findings since 1986. The bibliography has also been updated.

Author : David C. Engerman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674986060

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The Price of Aid by David C. Engerman Pdf

This study of US and Soviet aid efforts in India during the Cold War “makes a major contribution towards a necessary discussion of the politics of aid” (Times Higher Education). Debates over foreign aid are often strangely ahistorical. Economists argue about how to make aid work while critics bemoan money wasted on corruption, ignoring the fundamentally political character of aid. The Price of Aid turns the standard debate on its head. By exposing the geopolitical calculus underpinning development assistance, it also exposes its costs. India stood at the center of American and Soviet aid competition throughout the Cold War, as both superpowers saw developmental aid as a way of pursuing their geopolitical goals by economic means. Drawing on recently declassified files from seven countries, David Engerman shows how Indian leaders used Cold War competition to win battles at home, eroding the Indian state in the process. As China spends freely in Africa, the political stakes of foreign aid are rising once again. “A superb, field-changing book . . . A true classic.” —Sunil Amrith

Author : Sripati Chandrasekhar
Publisher : New York, Praeger
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Economic assistance, American
ISBN : UOM:39015007299574

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American Aid and India's Economic Development by Sripati Chandrasekhar Pdf

The role of USA in economic development of India. Economic aid in connection with agriculture and rural development, industrialization, medical care, education, the infrastructure, etc. Bibliography pp. 233 to 240.

Author : Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262260398

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Making Aid Work by Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee Pdf

An encouraging account of the potential of foreign aid to reduce poverty and a challenge to all aid organizations to think harder about how they spend their money. With more than a billion people now living on less than a dollar a day, and with eight million dying each year because they are simply too poor to live, most would agree that the problem of global poverty is our greatest moral challenge. The large and pressing practical question is how best to address that challenge. Although millions of dollars flow to poor countries, the results are often disappointing. In Making Aid Work, Abhijit Banerjee—an "aid optimist"—argues that aid has much to contribute, but the lack of analysis about which programs really work causes considerable waste and inefficiency, which in turn fuels unwarranted pessimism about the role of aid in fostering economic development. Banerjee challenges aid donors to do better. Building on the model used to evaluate new drugs before they come on the market, he argues that donors should assess programs with field experiments using randomized trials. In fact, he writes, given the number of such experiments already undertaken, current levels of development assistance could focus entirely on programs with proven records of success in experimental conditions. Responding to his challenge, leaders in the field—including Nicholas Stern, Raymond Offenheiser, Alice Amsden, Ruth Levine, Angus Deaton, and others—question whether randomized trials are the most appropriate way to evaluate success for all programs. They raise broader questions as well, about the importance of aid for economic development and about the kinds of interventions (micro or macro, political or economic) that will lead to real improvements in the lives of poor people around the world. With one in every six people now living in extreme poverty, getting it right is crucial.

Author : Dambisa Moyo
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1429954256

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Dead Aid by Dambisa Moyo Pdf

In the past fifty years, more than $1 trillion in development-related aid has been transferred from rich countries to Africa. Has this assistance improved the lives of Africans? No. In fact, across the continent, the recipients of this aid are not better off as a result of it, but worse—much worse. In Dead Aid, Dambisa Moyo describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa today and unflinchingly confronts one of the greatest myths of our time: that billions of dollars in aid sent from wealthy countries to developing African nations has helped to reduce poverty and increase growth. In fact, poverty levels continue to escalate and growth rates have steadily declined—and millions continue to suffer. Provocatively drawing a sharp contrast between African countries that have rejected the aid route and prospered and others that have become aid-dependent and seen poverty increase, Moyo illuminates the way in which overreliance on aid has trapped developing nations in a vicious circle of aid dependency, corruption, market distortion, and further poverty, leaving them with nothing but the "need" for more aid. Debunking the current model of international aid promoted by both Hollywood celebrities and policy makers, Moyo offers a bold new road map for financing development of the world's poorest countries that guarantees economic growth and a significant decline in poverty—without reliance on foreign aid or aid-related assistance. Dead Aid is an unsettling yet optimistic work, a powerful challenge to the assumptions and arguments that support a profoundly misguided development policy in Africa. And it is a clarion call to a new, more hopeful vision of how to address the desperate poverty that plagues millions.

Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1180 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136889295

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Routledge Library Editions: Development Mini-Set B: Aid by Various Authors Pdf

Routledge Library Editions: Development will re-issue works which address economic, political and social aspects of development. Published over more than four decades these books trace the emergence of development as one of the most important contemporary issues and one of the key areas of study for modern social science. The books cover the most important themes within development and include studies of Latin America, Africa and Asia. Authors include Sir Alexander Cairncross, W. Arthur Lewis, Lord Peter Bauer and Cristobal Kay. An extensive collection of previously hard to access or out of print books, this set presents an unrivalled opportunity to build up a wealth of material in the field of development studies, with a particular focus upon economic and political concerns. The volumes in the collection offer both a global overview of the history of development in the twentieth century, and a huge variety of case studies on the development of individual nations. For institutional purchases for e-book sets please contact [email protected] (customers in the UK, Europe and Rest of World)

Author : Roger C. Riddell,Roger Riddell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199544462

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Does Foreign Aid Really Work? by Roger C. Riddell,Roger Riddell Pdf

Provided for over 60 years, and expanding more rapidly today than it has for a generation, foreign aid is now a $100bn business. But does it work? Indeed, is it needed at all? In this first-ever, overall assessment of aid, Roger Riddell provides a rigorous but highly readable account of aid, warts and all.

Author : Finn Tarp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000-08-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134608485

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Foreign Aid and Development by Finn Tarp Pdf

Peter Hjertholm, Editorial Assistant Aid has worked in the past but can be made to work better in the future. In this important new book, leading economists and political scientists, including experienced aid practitioners, re-examine foreign aid. The evolution of development doctrine over the past fifty years is critically investigated, and conventional wisdom and current practice is challenged. As well as offering important new research material, the book opens up new directions for future practice and policy. It will be of vital interest to those working in economics, politics and development studies, as well as to governmental and aid professionals.

Author : Bhuwan Chandra Upreti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Economic assistance, East Indian
ISBN : UOM:39015037374553

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Dynamics of Foreign Aid by Bhuwan Chandra Upreti Pdf

Author : Philip John Eldridge
Publisher : London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCAL:B4395564

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The Politics of Foreign Aid in India by Philip John Eldridge Pdf

Author : Philip J. Eldridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:695402611

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The Politics of Foreign Aid in India by Philip J. Eldridge Pdf

Author : Pushpa Sundar
Publisher : Routledge India
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138380377

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Foreign Aid for Indian Ngos by Pushpa Sundar Pdf

This book explores what difference development aid has made to the size, complexity, style of functioning, values and future direction of the NGO sector in India. It does this, first, by giving a comprehensive documentation of the experience of Indian NGOs with foreign aid since Independence. Simultaneously, it also analyses, in a broad historical perspective, some of the issues which are the subject of contemporary debate regarding the voluntary sector and aid, such as who decides 'what' is development and 'how' it should be brought about; whether foreign donors have hidden agendas, and if their aid amounts to cultural imperialism; and whether aid has made NGOs more self-reliant. The book also looks at the tripartite relationship between NGOs, donors, and governments, examining, for instance, whether the government is justified in imposing restrictions on receipt of funds by NGOs on the grounds that terrorist activities and religiously motivated communal strife are often financed with funds from abroad, with NGOs being used as fronts for both.