The Politics Of Aid Selectivity
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The Politics Of Aid Selectivity
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Author : Wil Hout
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-06-28
The Politics Of Aid Selectivity written by Wil Hout and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-28 with Business & Economics categories.
The first extended analysis of selectivity policies of important bilateral and multilateral aid donors, this book combines a policy-analytical with a quantitative-empirical approach. Bringing out the conflicts that may exist between foreign assistance agendas and the desire of governments in developing countries to set priorities for their national development policies, the author: describes in detail the policies of aid selectivity adopted by the World Bank, the Netherlands and the United States since the end of the 1990s including the underlying assumptions looks at key decisions related to a selection of developing countries compares policy-making and different approaches to selectivity in the United Kingdom with those in developing countries. Critical and analytical in style, this book is, among other areas, an invaluable resource for students of various sub-fields of development studies and policy analysis as well as appealing to researchers and policy makers working in the area of foreign assistance across the globe.
Foreign Aid And Domestic Politics Implications For Aid Selectivity
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Author : Rune Jansen Hagen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Foreign Aid And Domestic Politics Implications For Aid Selectivity written by Rune Jansen Hagen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with categories.
Giving Aid Effectively
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Author : Mark T. Buntaine
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-03-01
Giving Aid Effectively written by Mark T. Buntaine and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-01 with Political Science categories.
International organizations do not always live up to the expectations and mandates of their member countries. One of the best examples of this gap is the environmental performance of multilateral development banks, which are tasked with allocating and managing approximately half of all development assistance worldwide. In the 1980s and 1990s, the multilateral development banks came under severe criticism for financing projects that caused extensive deforestation, polluted large urban areas, displaced millions of people, and destroyed valuable natural resources. In response to significant and public failures, member countries established or strengthened administrative procedures, citizen complaint mechanisms, project evaluation, and strategic planning processes. All of these reforms intended to close the gap between the mandates and performance of the multilateral development banks by shaping the way projects are approved. Giving Aid Effectively provides a systematic examination of whether these efforts have succeeded in aligning allocation decisions with performance. Mark T. Buntaine argues that the most important way to give aid effectively is selectivity - moving towards projects with a record of success and away from projects with a record of failure for individual recipient countries. This book shows that under certain circumstances, the control mechanisms established to close the gap between mandate and performance have achieved selectivity. Member countries prompt the multilateral development banks to give aid more effectively when they generate information about the outcomes of past operations and use that information to make less successful projects harder to approve or more successful projects easier to approve. This argument is substantiated with the most extensive analysis of evaluations across four multilateral development banks ever completed, together with in-depth case studies and dozens of interviews. More generally, Giving Aid Effectively demonstrates that member countries have a number of mechanisms that allow them to manage international organizations for results.
Foreign Aid Delivery Donor Selectivity And Poverty
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Author : Simone Dietrich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Foreign Aid Delivery Donor Selectivity And Poverty written by Simone Dietrich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
The Politics Of Aid
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Author : Lindsay Whitfield
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2008-11-27
The Politics Of Aid written by Lindsay Whitfield and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-27 with Political Science categories.
This book presents an original approach to understanding the relationship between official aid agencies and aid-receiving African governments. The first part provides a challenge to the hazy official claims of aid donors that they have stopped trying to force African governments to do what 'we' think is best for 'them' and instead are now promoting African 'ownership' of the policies and projects which foreign aid supports. The authors tease out the multiple meanings of the term 'ownership', demonstrating why it became popular when it did, but also the limits to this discourse of ownership observed in aid practices. The authors set out to defend a particular vision of ownership-one that involves African governments taking back control of their development policies and priorities. Based largely on interviews with the people who do the negotiating on both sides of the aid relationship, the country case studies put the rhetoric of the new aid system to a more practical test. The authors ask how donors seek to achieve their policy objectives without being seen to push too hard, what preconditions they place on transferring authority to African governments, and what effect the constant discussions over development policy have on state institutions, democracy and political culture in recipient countries. It investigates the strategies that African states have adopted to advance their objectives in aid negotiations and how successful their efforts have been. Comparing the country experiences, it points out the conditions accounting for the varying success of eight African countries: Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia. It concludes by asking whether the conditions African countries face in aid negotiations are changing.
Brother Can You Spare A Billion
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Author : Daniel McDowell
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
Brother Can You Spare A Billion written by Daniel McDowell and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Business & Economics categories.
"This book explores how and why the U.S. has regularly acted, often alongside the IMF, as an international lender of last resort by selectively bailing out foreign economies in crisis. It highlights the unique role that the U.S. has played in stabilizing the world economy from the 1960s through 2008"--Provided by publisher.
Aid Effectiveness And Selectivity
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Author : Mark McGillivray
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Aid Effectiveness And Selectivity written by Mark McGillivray and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Economic assistance categories.
The Quality Of Foreign Aid
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Author : Waly Wane
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
The Quality Of Foreign Aid written by Waly Wane and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
Wane investigates the determinants of foreign aid quality. He shows that design effects are a crucial component of quality. He thus establishes that donors have an impact on the quality of the foreign assistance they provide. The author also shows both theoretically and empirically that the quality of aid is endogenous to the relationship between the donor agency and the recipient government. Highly capable and accountable governments accept only well-designed projects, whereas governments with low accountability may accept poor quality projects either because they are unable to assess the worth of the projects or they will benefit personally.This paper - a product of Public Services, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the group to explore the determinants of aid effectiveness.
The European Union And International Development
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language : en
Publisher: Routledge
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The European Union And International Development written by and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Foreign Aid
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Author : Carol Lancaster
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2008-09-15
Foreign Aid written by Carol Lancaster and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-15 with Political Science categories.
A twentieth-century innovation, foreign aid has become a familiar and even expected element in international relations. But scholars and government officials continue to debate why countries provide it: some claim that it is primarily a tool of diplomacy, some argue that it is largely intended to support development in poor countries, and still others point out its myriad newer uses. Carol Lancaster effectively puts this dispute to rest here by providing the most comprehensive answer yet to the question of why governments give foreign aid. She argues that because of domestic politics in aid-giving countries, it has always been—and will continue to be—used to achieve a mixture of different goals. Drawing on her expertise in both comparative politics and international relations and on her experience as a former public official, Lancaster provides five in-depth case studies—the United States, Japan, France, Germany, and Denmark—that demonstrate how domestic politics and international pressures combine to shape how and why donor governments give aid. In doing so, she explores the impact on foreign aid of political institutions, interest groups, and the ways governments organize their giving. Her findings provide essential insight for scholars of international relations and comparative politics, as well as anyone involved with foreign aid or foreign policy.