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Reinventing foreign aid / edited by William Easterly ; forward by Nancy Birdsall ; sponsored by the Center for Global Development.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Easterly, William, 1957-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Economic assistance--Developing countries--Evaluation.
Economic assistance.
Economic development projects--Developing countries--Evaluation.
Economic development projects.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (580 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.
Summary:
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.
Contents:
Making aid work / Abhijit Banerjee and Ruimin He
Use of randomization in the evaluation of development effectiveness / Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer
It pays to be ignorant : a simple political economy of rigorous program evaluation / Lant Pritchett
Solutions when the solution is the problem : arraying the disarray in development / Lant Pritchett and Michael Woolcock
Donors and service delivery / Ritva Reinikka
The illusion of sustainability / Michael Kremer and Edward Miguel
An aid-institutions paradox? : a review essay on aid dependency and state building in Sub-Saharan Africa / Todd Moss, Gunilla Pettersson, and Nicolas van de Walle
Why do aid agencies exist? / Bertin Martens
Absorption capacity and disbursement constraints / Jakob Svensson
Donor fragmentation / Stephen Knack and Aminur Rahman
The IMF and economic development / James Raymond Vreeland
The knowledge bank / Jonathan Morduch
Debt relief and fiscal sustainability for heavily indebted poor countries / Craig Burnside and Domenico Fanizza
Making vaccines pay / Michael Kremer
Can we build a better mousetrap? Three new insitutions designed to improve aid effectiveness / Steven Radelet and Ruth Levine
Competing with central planning : marketplaces for international aid / Dennis Whittle and Mari Kuraishi
Placing enterprise and business thinking at the heart of the war on poverty / Kurt Hoffman
Avoid hubris: and other lessons for reformers / John McMillan
Seven deadly sins: reflections on donor fallings / Nancy Birdsall.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-262-27212-1
1-4356-4877-3
OCLC:
939263735

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