Making aid work / Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Banerjee, Abhijit V., 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic assistance--Developing countries.

Economic assistance.

Developing countries.

Poor--Developing countries.

Poor.

Physical Description:

xv, 170 pages ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2007]

Summary:

Affecting one in six people in the world today, the problem of global poverty is perhaps our greatest moral challenge. But as millions of dollars flow to poor countries, the results are often disappointing. Making Aid Work provides a forum on how to evaluate aid programs and calls for economists to change their way of thinking, offering a blueprint for effective aid.

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee-an "aid optimist"-argues that the lack of analysis about which programs really work causes considerable waste. He challenges aid donors to do better, urging them to assess programs with field experiments using randomized trials. Experts respond, raising broad questions 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. Although they may disagree on many issues, their responses underscore a growing consensus that impact evaluations of aid programs must improve.

Making Aid Work offers the hopeful next steps for anyone who cares about fighting global poverty. With more than a billion people now living on less than one dollar a day, and with eight million dying each year because they are simply too poor to live, getting it right is crucial.

Contents:

Making aid work

Forum. Ian Goldin, F. Halsey Rogers, and Nicholas Stern ; Mick Moore ; Ian Vásquez ; Angus Deaton ; Alice H. Amsden ; Robert H. Bates ; Carlos Barbery ; Howard White ; Jagdish Bhagwati ; Raymond C. Offenheiser and Didier Jacobs ; Ruth Levine ; Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee

Inside the machine.

Notes:

"A Boston review book."

ISBN:

9780262026154

0262026155

OCLC:

76864152