Reinventing foreign aid

Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: Easterly, William,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10229590
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245 0 0 |a Reinventing foreign aid  |c edited by William Easterly ; forward by Nancy Birdsall ; sponsored by the Center for Global Development. 
260 |a Cambridge, Mass. :  |b MIT Press,  |c c2008. 
300 |a x, 567 p. :  |b ill. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Making aid work / Abhijit Banerjee and Ruimin He -- Use of randomization in the evaluation of development effectiveness / Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer -- It pays to be ignorant : a simple political economy of rigorous program evaluation / Lant Pritchett -- Solutions when the solution is the problem : arraying the disarray in development / Lant Pritchett and Michael Woolcock -- Donors and service delivery / Ritva Reinikka -- The illusion of sustainability / Michael Kremer and Edward Miguel -- An aid-institutions paradox? : a review essay on aid dependency and state building in Sub-Saharan Africa / Todd Moss, Gunilla Pettersson, and Nicolas van de Walle -- Why do aid agencies exist? / Bertin Martens -- Absorption capacity and disbursement constraints / Jakob Svensson -- Donor fragmentation / Stephen Knack and Aminur Rahman -- The IMF and economic development / James Raymond Vreeland -- The knowledge bank / Jonathan Morduch -- Debt relief and fiscal sustainability for heavily indebted poor countries / Craig Burnside and Domenico Fanizza -- Making vaccines pay / Michael Kremer -- Can we build a better mousetrap? Three new insitutions designed to improve aid effectiveness / Steven Radelet and Ruth Levine -- Competing with central planning : marketplaces for international aid / Dennis Whittle and Mari Kuraishi -- Placing enterprise and business thinking at the heart of the war on poverty / Kurt Hoffman -- Avoid hubris: and other lessons for reformers / John McMillan -- Seven deadly sins: reflections on donor fallings / Nancy Birdsall. 
650 0 |a Economic assistance  |x Evaluation.  |z Developing countries 
650 0 |a Economic development projects  |x Evaluation.  |z Developing countries 
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