Edited by Dr. George Mavrotas
Foreign aid is one of the few topics in the development discourse with such an uninterrupted, yet volatile history in terms of interest and attention from academics, policymakers, and practitioners alike. Does aid work in promoting growth and reducing poverty in the developing world? Will a new
'big push' approach accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals or will another opportunity be missed? Can the lessons of almost half a century of aid giving be learnt? These are truly important questions in view of the emerging new landscape in foreign aid and recent developments
related to the global financial crisis, which are expected to have far reaching implications for both donors and recipients engaged in this area. Against this shifting aid landscape, there is a pressing need to evaluate progress to date and shed new light on emerging issues and agendas.
This volume brings together leading aid experts to review the progress achieved so far, identify the challenges ahead, and discuss the emerging policy agenda in foreign aid. A central conclusion of this important and timely volume is that, since development aid remains crucial for many developing
countries, a huge effort is needed from both donors and aid recipients to overcome the inefficiencies and make aid work better for poor people. After all, as global citizens, we have a moral obligation to do the best we can to lift people out of poverty in the developing world. The findings of this
book will be of considerable interest to professionals and policymakers engaged in policy reforms in foreign aid, and provide an essential one-stop reference for students of development, international finance, and economics.
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 of foreign 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 new aid 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 General Budget 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
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George Mavrotas is the Chief Economist of the Global Development Network (GDN), formerly a Fellow and Project Director at UNU-WIDER and, prior to that, in the Economics Faculties of the Universities of Oxford and Manchester. He is also a Visiting Professor at CERDI, University of Auvergne in
Clermont-Ferrand, France. He is the author and co-author of more than 100 publications, including papers in leading peer-reviewed journals, chapters in edited volumes and books on a broad range of development issues. His publcations include Commodity Supply Management by Producing Countries (OUP);
Advancing Development: Core Themes in Global Economics (Palgrave Macmillan) and Development Aid: A Fresh Look (Palgrave Macmillan). He holds a PhD in Economics (DPhil) from Oxford.
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Does Foreign Aid Really Work? - Roger C. Riddell
The Samaritan's Dilemma - Clark C. Gibson, Krister Andersson, Elinor Ostrom and Sujai Shivakumar
The Politics of Aid - Edited by Lindsay Whitfield
Making Sense - Margot Northey and Joan McKibbin
