Does foreign aid really work? / Roger C. Riddell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riddell, Roger.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic assistance.

Economic assistance--Evaluation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (531 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book presents an account of foreign aid, warts and all. The book sets out the evidence and exposes the instances where aid has failed and explains why. The book also examines the way that short-term political interests distort aid, and disentangles the moral and ethical assumptions that lie behind the belief that aid does good. The book concludes by detailing the practical ways that aid needs to change if it is to be the effective force for good that its providers claim it is.

Contents:

1. 'A good thing?'

Part I: The complex worlds of foreign aid

2. The origins and early decades of aid-giving

3. Aid-giving from the 1970's to the present

4. The growing web of bilateral aid donors

5. The complexities of multilateral aid

Part II: Why is aid given?

6. The political and commercial dimensions of aid

7. Public support for aid

8. Charity or duty? : the moral case for aid

9. The moral case for governments and individuals to provide aid

Part III: Does aid really work?

10. Assessing and measuring the impact of aid

11. The impact of official development aid projects

12. The impact of programme aid, technical assistance and aid for capacity development

13. The impact of aid at the country and cross-country level

14. Assessing the impact of aid conditionality

15. Does official development aid really work? : a summing up

16. NGO's in development and the impact of discrete NGO development interventions

17. The wider impact of non-governmental and civil society organizations

18. The growth of emergencies and the humanitarian response

19. The impact of emergency and humanitarian aid

Part IV: Towards a different future for aid

20. Why aid isn't working

21. Making aid work better by implementing agreed reforms

22. Making aid work better by recasting aid relationships.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

EBL Purchase.

Non-linear Access.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [457]-487) and index.

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ISBN:

1-281-15495-4

9786611154950

0-19-153776-4

1-4294-9308-9

OCLC:

476241201