Format:
1 online resource (531 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780199295654
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9780191537769
Content:
Provided for over 60 years, and expanding more rapidly today than it has for a generation, foreign aid is now a 100bn business. But does it work? Indeed, is it needed at all? In this first-ever, overall assessment of aid, Roger Riddell provides a rigorous but highly readable account of aid, warts and all
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF BOXES -- PREFACE -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- 1. 'A good thing?' -- The aid revival -- A different book on aid -- Outline of the book -- PART I: THE COMPLEX WORLDS OF FOREIGN AID -- 2. The origins and early decades of aid-giving -- Defining aid -- A snapshot of the history of aid -- The origins of aid: the pre-1949 era -- The 1950s to the 1960s -- 3. Aid-giving from the 1970s to the present -- The 1970s and 1980s -- From the 1990s to today -- 4. The growing web of bilateral aid donors -- The ever-increasing number of donors -- The explosion in the numbers of non-governmental organizations -- The main bilateral donors -- The smaller bilateral donors -- 5. The complexities of multilateral aid -- What is multilateral aid and how much of it is there? -- The international financial institutions -- The United Nations, development and aid -- Other multilateral agencies -- Systemic issues -- PART II: WHY IS AID GIVEN? -- 6. The political and commercial dimensions of aid -- Why governments give aid -- Politics and national self-interest in aid-giving -- Commercial interests in aid-giving -- The overall impact of political and commercial influences on aid -- Concluding comments -- 7. Public support for aid -- Trends in public support -- The reliability of public opinion surveys -- Public support for aid and public perception of its effectiveness -- 8. Charity or duty? The moral case for aid -- Facts on the ground -- Ethical theories and approaches -- 9. The moral case for governments and individuals to provide aid -- Donor governments: current and evolving views -- Aid and the nature of governments' moral obligations -- Ethics, voluntary aid-giving and the world of NGOs -- PART III: DOES AID REALLY WORK? -- 10. Assessing and measuring the impact of aid
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Assessing humanitarian aid -- The impact of humanitarian action and humanitarian aid -- Advocacy in humanitarian action -- Emergency and humanitarian aid: a summing up -- PART IV: TOWARDS A DIFFERENT FUTURE FOR AID -- 20. Why aid isn't working -- Systematic impediments to aid effectiveness: problems caused by donors -- Problems at the recipient end: aid dilemmas -- Conclusion -- 21. Making aid work better by implementing agreed reforms -- The discrete individual-donor approach -- The step-change international cooperative approach -- Taking stock -- 22. Making aid work better by recasting aid relationships -- Confronting the politics of aid-giving -- Recasting aid relationships -- Making aid work better: addressing five key problem areas -- Bridging the divide between ideas and implementation -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
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Methodological challenges and data-gaps -- Judging the impact and performance of aid: what questions need to be asked? -- Understanding how aid contributes to growth and development -- Expectations about the impact of aid -- 11. The impact of official development aid projects -- Project aid: an overview -- Detailed project performance -- Data quality and the sustainability of official aid projects -- The wider picture -- Summing up -- 12. The impact of programme aid, technical assistance and aid for capacity development -- Programme aid -- Technical assistance -- Aid for capacity building -- 13. The impact of aid at the country and cross-country level -- The country-level impact of aid -- The impact of official development aid across countries -- 14. Assessing the impact of aid conditionality -- Aggregate aid impact and the policy environment -- Official donor conditionality and recipient response -- Does policy conditionality produce the results intended? -- Summing up -- 15. Does official development aid really work? A summing up -- The search for sustainability -- Effectiveness does matter -- 16. NGOs in development and the impact of discrete NGO development interventions -- NGOs: an overview -- Methodological challenges -- The impact of NGO development projects and programmes -- Cost-effectiveness, quality, innovation and replication -- Capacity development and institutional strengthening -- 17. The wider impact of non-governmental and civil society organizations -- NGO advocacy, lobbying, awareness-raising and campaigning -- Strengthening NGOs and strengthening civil society -- The contribution of NGOs to development: a summing up -- 18. The growth of emergencies and the humanitarian response -- Emergencies and disasters: an overview -- The humanitarian aid response -- 19. The impact of emergency and humanitarian aid
Additional Edition:
Print version Riddell, Roger C. Does Foreign Aid Really Work? Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c2008 ISBN 9780199295654
Language:
English
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