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Author |
: Nicolas Van de Walle |
Publisher |
: CGD Books |
Total Pages |
: 136 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105121949130 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Overcoming Stagnation in Aid-dependent Countries by : Nicolas Van de Walle
In this book, Nicolas Van de Walle identifies 26 countries that are extremely poor and grew little if at all in the 1990s. His sample excludes North Korea and countries where civil war explains some of their failure to grow (Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tajikistan and others). The 26 countries have limited infrastructure and human capital and the small size of their markets deter private savings and investment. Aid was meant to help overcome these problems, and these countries received a lot. Yet they have failed to grow. What is wrong? Is foreign aid a solution or part of the problem? What changes might make aid more effective? Given these countries require the financial and technical resources of the West, why haven't aid programs made a difference? Van de Walle blames their economic failure mostly on the venality and incompetence of their political leadership. He analyzes the contradictions and tensions faced by the aid community in poorly run countries, providing a sobering analysis of the perverse effects of aid where the politics is all wrong. Too often, resources provided by foreign aid keep the wrong government in office, and undermine adoption of economic as well as political reforms. Bad government combined with aid, in short, hurts poor countries - and particularly the poorest people in those countries. Despite good intentions, little progress has been made in implementing announced "reforms" of the aid business itself. A constituency for reform is lacking, in the donor countries and in the recipient countries, where those in power benefit from the status quo.
Author |
: Nicolas Van de Walle |
Publisher |
: Thomas Brothers Maps |
Total Pages |
: 120 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0881323799 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780881323795 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Overcoming Stagnation in Aid-dependent Countries by : Nicolas Van de Walle
For 50 years, foreign aid has been the central policy instrument with which the international community has promoted economic development. The main justification for aid has always been that the poorest countries could not develop without it. But does Foreign aid work? This book argues that large new infusions of foreign aid will largely be wasted unless the current agenda of reform is pushed forward much more aggressively. It offers a concrete a set of proposals for the international community to promote economic development.
Author |
: Sophal Ear |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 210 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231161121 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231161123 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Aid Dependence in Cambodia by : Sophal Ear
"Dr. Ear argues that the international community has chosen to prioritize political stability above all other governance dimensions, and in so doing has traded a modicum of democracy for an ounce of security. Focusing on post-1993 Cambodia, Ear explores the unintended consequences in post-conflict environments of foreign aid. He chooses Cambodia both for personal reasons--which infuses an academic analysis with a compelling sense of urgency--and because it is one of the most aid-drenched countries in modern history. He tries to explain the relationship between Cambodia's aid dependence and its appallingly poor governance. He concludes that despite decades of aid, technical cooperation, four national elections, no open warfare, and some progress in some parts of the economy, Cambodia is one broken government away from disaster."--Publisher's description.
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: |
Publisher |
: World Bank Publications |
Total Pages |
: 164 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0195211235 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780195211238 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Assessing Aid by :
Assessing Aid determines that the effectiveness of aid is not decided by the amount received but rather the institutional and policy environment into which it is accepted. It examines how development assistance can be more effective at reducing global poverty and gives five mainrecommendations for making aid more effective: targeting financial aid to poor countries with good policies and strong economic management; providing policy-based aid to demonstrated reformers; using simpler instruments to transfer resources to countries with sound management; focusing projects oncreating and transmitting knowledge and capacity; and rethinking the internal incentives of aid agencies.
Author |
: David A. Phillips |
Publisher |
: Anthem Press |
Total Pages |
: 234 |
Release |
: 2013-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780857283016 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0857283014 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Development Without Aid by : David A. Phillips
“Development Without Aid” opens up perspectives about foreign aid to the world’s poorest countries. Growing up in Malawi the author developed a sense of the limitations of foreign assistance and from this evolves a critique of foreign aid as an alien resource unable to provide the dynamism that could propel the poorest countries out of poverty. The book aims to help move the discussion beyond foreign aid. It examines the rapid growth of the world’s diasporas as a quasi-indigenous resource of increasing strength in terms of both financial and human capital, and considers how far such a resource might supersede aid. It uses extensive research findings to explore the possibilities for a resumption of sovereignty by poor states, especially in Africa, over their own development with the assistance of the world’s diasporas.
Author |
: J. Oloka-Onyango |
Publisher |
: Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 395 |
Release |
: 2014-11-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781443870931 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1443870935 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Problems, Promises, and Paradoxes of Aid by : J. Oloka-Onyango
This book is an anthology of essays contributing new scholarship to the contemporary discourse on the concept of aid. It provides an interdisciplinary investigation of the role of aid in African development, compiling the work of historians, political scientists, legal scholars, and economists to examine where aid has failed and to offer new perspectives on how aid can be made more effective. Questions regarding the effectiveness of aid are addressed here using specific case studies. The question of ownership is examined in the context of two debates: 1) to what extent should aid be designed by the recipient country itself? and 2) should aid focus on “need” or “performance”? That is, should donors direct aid to the poorest countries, regardless of their policies and governance, or should aid “reward” countries for doing the right thing? The future of aid is also addressed: should aid continue to be a part of the development agenda for countries in sub-Saharan Africa? If so, how much and what type of aid is needed, and how it can be made most effective? The major criticism against aid is that it cripples the recipient country’s economic growth by turning it into a passive receiver; in addition, it has been noted that aid is mostly supply-driven, depending upon donors rather than the actual needs of recipients. For this reason, aid may not meet the goals for which it was intended. To meet the needs of the communities they want to help, donors should work through consultation and a measure of recipient ownership. Donors need to understand context, to protect human rights, and to be guided by principles of social and environmental justice. Other suggested strategies for making aid more effective include peer review; self-assessment; the empowerment of women; encouraging accountability; investing in agriculture; helping smallholder subsistence farmers; introducing ethical and professional standards for civil service; and raising the competence of civil servants.
Author |
: James Dobbins |
Publisher |
: Rand Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 349 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780833078636 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0833078631 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Overcoming Obstacles to Peace by : James Dobbins
"This volume analyzes the impediments that local conditions pose to successful outcomes of nation-building interventions in conflict-affected areas. Previous RAND studies of nation-building focused on external interveners' activities. This volume shifts the focus to internal circumstances, first identifying the conditions that gave rise to conflicts or threatened to perpetuate them, and then determining how external and local actors were able to modify or work around them to promote enduring peace. It examines in depth six varied societies: Cambodia, El Salvador, Bosnia and Herzegovina, East Timor, Sierra Leone, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It then analyzes a larger set of 20 major post-Cold War nation-building interventions. The authors assess the risk of renewed conflict at the onset of the interventions and subsequent progress along five dimensions: security, democratization, government effectiveness, economic growth, and human development. They find that transformation of many of the specific conditions that gave rise to or fueled conflict often is not feasible in the time frame of nation-building operations but that such transformation has not proven essential to achieving the primary goal of nation-building -- establishing peace. Most interventions in the past 25 years have led to enduring peace, as well as some degree of improvement in the other dimensions assessed. The findings suggest the importance of setting realistic expectations -- neither expecting nation-building operations to quickly lift countries out of poverty and create liberal democracies, nor being swayed by a negative stereotype of nation-building that does not recognize its signal achievements in the great majority of cases."--Page 4 of cover.
Author |
: William R. Easterly |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 581 |
Release |
: 2008-05-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780262550666 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0262550660 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reinventing Foreign Aid by : William R. Easterly
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. The urgency of reducing poverty in the developing world has been the subject of a public campaign by such unlikely policy experts as George Clooney, Alicia Keyes, Elton John, Angelina Jolie, and Bono. And yet accompanying the call for more foreign aid is an almost universal discontent with the effectiveness of the existing aid system. In Reinventing Foreign Aid, development expert William Easterly has gathered top scholars in the field to discuss how to improve foreign aid. These authors, Easterly points out, are not claiming that their ideas will (to invoke a current slogan) Make Poverty History. Rather, they take on specific problems and propose some hard-headed solutions. Easterly himself, in an expansive and impassioned introductory chapter, makes a case for the “searchers”—who explore solutions by trial and error and learn from feedback—over the “planners”—who throw an endless supply of resources at a big goal—as the most likely to reduce poverty. Other writers look at scientific evaluation of aid projects (including randomized trials) and describe projects found to be cost-effective, including vaccine delivery and HIV education; consider how to deal with the government of the recipient state (work through it or bypass a possibly dysfunctional government?); examine the roles of the International Monetary Fund (a de-facto aid provider) and the World Bank; and analyze some new and innovative proposals for distributing aid. Contributors Abhijit Banerjee, Nancy Birdsall, Craig Burnside, Esther Duflo, Domenico Fanizza, William Easterly, Ruimin He, Kurt Hoffman, Stephen Knack, Michael Kremer, Mari Kuraishi, Ruth Levine, Bertin Martens, John McMillan, Edward Miguel, Jonathan Morduch, Todd Moss, Gunilla Pettersson, Lant Pritchett, Steven Radelet, Aminur Rahman, Ritva Reinikka, Jakob Svensson, Nicolas van de Walle, James Vreeland, Dennis Whittle, Michael Woolcock
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: |
Publisher |
: World Bank Publications |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 2006-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780821368480 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0821368486 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Engaging with Fragile States by :
During fiscal 2003-05, World Bank lending and administrative budgets to fragile states amounted to $4.1 billion and $161 million, respectively. This report assesses the effectiveness of this Bank support. The report finds that the Bank and the donor community have improved their operational readiness to engage with fragile states, and made substantial progress on donor coordination at the international policy level. Significant challenges remain, however. Donor agendas have been overly ambitious and need to be made more selective, the effectiveness of donor programs needs to be improved after the immediate post-conflict phase in war-ravaged countries when structural change is needed, and donors need to develop transparent aid allocation criteria that ensure that fragile states will be neither under- nor over-aided. The report makes recommendations to overcome these challenges and distills lessons for the Bank and other donors.
Author |
: Lindsay Whitfield |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages |
: 422 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199560172 |
ISBN-13 |
: 019956017X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Politics of Aid by : Lindsay Whitfield
The volume examines negotiations between rich countries and African governments over what should happen with money given as aid. Describing the history of aid talks the volume presents eight studies of the strategies of negotiation tried by particular African countries.