Foreign aid for development: issues, challenges, and the new agenda

An edited collection on foreign aid that addresses important aid questions, and reviews the shifting aid landscape in light of the recent global financial crisis. The volume reviews the progress achieved so far, identifies the challenges ahead, and discusses the emerging policy agenda in foreign aid. INDICE: Part I. Foreign aid for development; 1: George Mavrotas: Introduction and overview; 2: Finn Tarp: Aid, growth, and development; Part II. Enhancing aid effectiveness; 3: Gustav Ranis: Toward the enhanced effectiveness offoreign aid; 4: Machiko Nissanke: Reconstructing the aid effectiveness debate; Part III. Aid to fragile and conflict-affected countries; 5: Graham Brown, Frances Stewart, and Arnim Langer: The implications of horizontal inequality for aid; 6: Sakiko Fukuda-Parr: Conflict prevention as a policy objective of development aid; 7: Stephen Browne: Aid to fragile states: do donors help or hinder?; 8: Ghassan Dibeh: Foreign aid and economic development in post-war Lebanon; Part IV. Aid modalities; 9: Arjan de Haan and Max Everest-Phillips: Can newaid modalities handle politics?; 10: Nathalie Holvoet and Robrecht Renard: Monitoring and evaluation reform under changing aid modalities; 11: Michael Hubbard: Practical and theoretical implications of the Joint Evaluation of GeneralBudget Support; 12: Eva Jespersen and Julia Benn: New aid modalities and reporting support for child rights: lessons from assessing aid for basic social services; Part V. Managing aid flows; 13: Patrick Guillaumont and Sylviane Guillaumont Jeanneney: Big push versus absorptive capacity: how to reconcile the two approaches; 14: Richard Auty: Aid and rent-driven growth: Mauritania, Kenya,and Mozambique compared

• ISBN: 978-0-19-958093-4
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 392
• Fecha Publicación: 25/02/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés