Foreign aid : its defense and reform / Paul Mosley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mosley, Paul.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic assistance--Developing countries.

Economic assistance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 264 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 1987.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Economic aid to developing countries is an important -- and often controversial -- part of foreign policy for many Western nations. But how effective is such aid in achieving the objectives of the giver and the recipient? In this important study, Paul Mosley offers a challenging reassessment of the role of economic aid for nations on both sides of the equation.Mosley examines in detail the foreign aid programs of the leading Western powers with particular regard to the role of aid in international politics, and then examines the effectiveness of aid as a subsidy to exports, as an instrument of

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of tables; List of figures; Preface; PART I. INTRODUCTION; 1 The theoretical case: overseas aid as a 'public good'; Notes; PART II. HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL BACKGROUND; 2 The international politics of aid; 2.1 Donors: outline history; 2.2 Recipients: who gets what and why; 2.3 Conclusions; Notes; 3 Community and conflict in the aid donor community; 3.1 Dramatis personae; 3.2 Macro-level bargaining: the determination of the aid budget; 3.3 Micro-level bargaining: country, sector and project allocation; 3.4 Summary of argument

Appendix. A formal model of the determination of bilateral aid disbursements; Notes; 4 On the other side of the river: aid from the recipient's point of view; 4.1 Aid allocation at the macro-level; 4.2 Administrative biases in the functional allocation of aid; 4.3 Aid and resource allocation: preliminary hypotheses; Notes; PART III. AID EFFECTIVENESS: EVIDENCE; 5 Aid as instrument of development; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Empirical tests (i): Evidence from crosssection data; 5.3 Empirical tests (ii): Comparisons across time; 5.4 Conclusions: the 'macro-micro paradox'

Appendix. The pathways of aid impact: a mathematical model; Notes; 6 Aid as redistributive tool; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Impact on inter-country distribution; 6.3 Impact on inter-personal distribution: evidence; 6.4 Determinants of first-round effect and of linkage; 6.5 Conclusion: What can be done?; Appendix I. Statistics on aid flows and a note on the data; Appendix II. An analytical model of distributional effects and its application to one rural development project in Peru; Notes; 7 Aid as export subsidy; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Trade and employment benefits

7.3 Trade-related aid: developmental and other spin-off effects; 7.4 Conclusions; Notes; 8 The case for the defence; 8.1 Summary of findings; 8.2 Diagnosis; 8.3 Prescription; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliography (p. 243-257) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813159300

081315930X

OCLC:

654547563