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