Does foreign aid really work? /

Main Author: Riddell, Roger.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. 'A good thing'
  • 2. The origins and early decades of aid-giving
  • 3. Aid-giving from the 1970s to the present
  • 4. The growing web of bilateral aid donors
  • 5. The complexities of multilateral aid
  • 6. The political and commercial dimensions of aid
  • 7. Public support for aid
  • 8. Charity or duty? : the moral case for aid
  • 9. The moral case for governments and individuals to provide aid
  • 10. Assessing and measuring the impact of aid
  • 11. The impact of official development aid projects
  • 12. The impact of programme aid, technical assistance and aid for capacity development
  • 13. The impact of aid at the country and cross-country level
  • 14. Assessing the impact of aid conditionality
  • 15. Does official development aid really work? : a summing up
  • 16. NGOs in development and the impact of discrete NGO development interventions
  • 17. The wider impact of non-governmental and civil society organizations
  • 18. The growth of emergencies and the humanitarian response
  • 19. The impact of emergency and humanitarian aid
  • 20. Why aid isn't working
  • 21. Making aid work better by implementing agreed reforms
  • 22. Making aid work better by recasting aid relationships.