Reinventing Foreign Aid

Author : William R. Easterly
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262550666

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Reinventing Foreign Aid by William R. Easterly Pdf

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. The urgency of reducing poverty in the developing world has been the subject of a public campaign by such unlikely policy experts as George Clooney, Alicia Keyes, Elton John, Angelina Jolie, and Bono. And yet accompanying the call for more foreign aid is an almost universal discontent with the effectiveness of the existing aid system. In Reinventing Foreign Aid, development expert William Easterly has gathered top scholars in the field to discuss how to improve foreign aid. These authors, Easterly points out, are not claiming that their ideas will (to invoke a current slogan) Make Poverty History. Rather, they take on specific problems and propose some hard-headed solutions. Easterly himself, in an expansive and impassioned introductory chapter, makes a case for the “searchers”—who explore solutions by trial and error and learn from feedback—over the “planners”—who throw an endless supply of resources at a big goal—as the most likely to reduce poverty. Other writers look at scientific evaluation of aid projects (including randomized trials) and describe projects found to be cost-effective, including vaccine delivery and HIV education; consider how to deal with the government of the recipient state (work through it or bypass a possibly dysfunctional government?); examine the roles of the International Monetary Fund (a de-facto aid provider) and the World Bank; and analyze some new and innovative proposals for distributing aid. Contributors Abhijit Banerjee, Nancy Birdsall, Craig Burnside, Esther Duflo, Domenico Fanizza, William Easterly, Ruimin He, Kurt Hoffman, Stephen Knack, Michael Kremer, Mari Kuraishi, Ruth Levine, Bertin Martens, John McMillan, Edward Miguel, Jonathan Morduch, Todd Moss, Gunilla Pettersson, Lant Pritchett, Steven Radelet, Aminur Rahman, Ritva Reinikka, Jakob Svensson, Nicolas van de Walle, James Vreeland, Dennis Whittle, Michael Woolcock

Author : Inder Sud
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Economic assistance
ISBN : 1544843720

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Reforming Foreign Aid - Reinvent the World Bank by Inder Sud Pdf

Foreign aid evokes much emotion. Proponents view it as a moral imperative and the instrument of the West for ending global poverty. The opponents see it as a waste of taxpayer funds. Still others see it as a potential tool to ensure security threatened by fragile or failing states. The World Bank, the single most important and influential source of foreign aid, has in the last 50 years made a nearly a trillion dollars in grants and soft loans to nearly every developing country. Has this aid made a difference? Moreover, is it still a relevant institution in the world of today, when many developing countries have successfully moved to the ranks of middle-income or even upper income countries? In Reforming Foreign Aid: Reinvent the World Bank, drawing on his own experiences over 40 years of work in international development, Inder Sud argues that aid has been successful in promoting development only in those few countries that have had the leadership committed to helping their people and who were able to utilize foreign aid to support their own, home-grown, national development agenda. Unfortunately, aid donors are driven increasingly by their own political compulsions, or pressures from their domestic constituencies, and end up pushing initiatives that detract from the country's priorities or are simply wasteful. Sud suggests that the World Bank, as the most significant and influential aid donor, can take a lead in setting a new path for delivering foreign aid effectively. First and foremost, Sud argues, that aid should only be channeled to countries that have the requisite national leadership with a track record of pursuing sound development policies and programs. The World Bank still has a role to play in supporting such countries provided it undertakes major reforms in its governance, modus operandus, instruments, and most importantly moving back to its roots of not being influenced by political imperatives of major donor countries, notably the United States.

Author : Eric Jackson Labs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : UOM:39015041354625

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The Role of Foreign Aid in Development by Eric Jackson Labs Pdf

Author : Nabamita Dutta,Claudia R. Williamson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : Louis A. Picard,Robert Groelsema,Terry F. Buss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317470397

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Foreign Aid and Foreign Policy by Louis A. Picard,Robert Groelsema,Terry F. Buss Pdf

This timely work presents cutting-edge analysis of the problems of U.S. foreign assistance programs - why these problems have not been solved in the past, and how they might be solved in the future. The book focuses primarily on U.S. foreign assistance and foreign policy as they apply to nation building, governance, and democratization. The expert contributors examine issues currently in play, and also trace the history and evolution of many of these problems over the years. They address policy concerns as well as management and organizational factors as they affect programs and policies. "Foreign Aid and Foreign Policy" includes several chapter-length case studies (on Iraq, Pakistan, Ghana, Haiti, and various countries in Eastern Europe and Africa), but the bulk of the book presents broad coverage of general topics such as foreign aid and security, NGOs and foreign aid, capacity building, and building democracy abroad. Each chapter offers recommendations on how to improve the U.S. system of aid in the context of foreign policy.

Author : Paul Mosley
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0813133017

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Foreign Aid, Its Defense and Reform by Paul Mosley Pdf

Author : Jim Freedman
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0802080510

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Transforming Development by Jim Freedman Pdf

Foreign aid is now known more for its failures than its successes, leading to claims in academic and policy circles that foreign aid has outlived its usefulness. Instead of foreseeing the end of foreign, these essays show how it might be restored.

Author : Roger C. Riddell,Roger Riddell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : A. Maurits van der Veen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139503259

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Ideas, Interests and Foreign Aid by A. Maurits van der Veen Pdf

Why do countries give foreign aid? Although many countries have official development assistance programs, this book argues that no two of them see the purpose of these programmes in the same way. Moreover, the way countries frame that purpose has shaped aid policy choices past and present. The author examines how Belgium long gave aid out of a sense of obligation to its former colonies, The Netherlands was more interested in pursuing international influence, Italy has focused on the reputational payoffs of aid flows and Norwegian aid has had strong humanitarian motivations since the beginning. But at no time has a single frame shaped any one country's aid policy exclusively. Instead, analysing half a century of legislative debates on aid in these four countries, this book presents a unique picture both of cross-national and over time patterns in the salience of different aid frames and of varying aid programmes that resulted.

Author : Roger Riddell
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002285927

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Foreign Aid Reconsidered by Roger Riddell Pdf

Author : A. Sumner,R. Mallett
Publisher : Springer
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : Independent Group on the Future of U.S. Development Cooperation in a New Democratic Era
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Economic assistance, American
ISBN : NWU:35556035926377

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Reinventing Foreign Aid by Independent Group on the Future of U.S. Development Cooperation in a New Democratic Era Pdf

Author : George Mavrotas
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191610448

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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 : John White
Publisher : London ; Toronto : Bodley Head
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015034742992

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The Politics of Foreign Aid by John White Pdf

The Basic Position Taken In This Book Is That To Seperate Economic From Political Facters In A Way Is Illegitimate, And Will Give At Best Only A Partial View Of The Effects That Different Types Of Aid Will Have In Different Socio-Political Situations. The Book Constitutes An Attempt To Weld Political And Economic Perceptions Of The Processes Involved In The Giving And Receipt Of Aid Into A Single Framework. Without Dustjacket In Very Good Condition.

Author : Carol Lancaster
Publisher : Peterson Institute
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0881322911

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Transforming Foreign Aid by Carol Lancaster Pdf

The phenomenon of foreign aid began at the end of World War II and has survived the Cold War. How should the United States now spend its foreign aid to support its interests and values in the new century? In this study, Carol Lancaster takes a fresh look at all US foreign aid programs and asks whether their purposes, organization and management are appropriate to US interests and values in the world of the 21st century. Lancaster finds that US aid in the new century, if it is to be an effective tool of US foreign policy, needs to be transformed. Its purposes need to be refocused and its organization and management brought into line with those purposes. Those purposes include support for peace-making, addressing transnational issues, providing for humane concerns and responding to humanitarian emergencies. Traditional programs aimed at promoting development, democracy and economic and political transitions in former socialist countries will not disappear but they will have less priority than inthe past. These new sets of purposes, promoting both US interests and values abroad, also offer a policy paradigm around which a new political consensus can be created that will support US aid in the 21st century.Transforming Foreign Aid should be of particular interest to professors, students, and researchers of international affairs, foreign policy, political science, and political economy.