Does foreign aid really work?
This book presents an account of foreign aid, warts and all. The book sets out the evidence and exposes the instances where aid has failed and explains why. The book also examines the way that short-term political interests distort aid, and disentangles the moral and ethical assumptions that lie beh...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press
2007.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009623521606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. 'A good thing?'
- Part I: The complex worlds of foreign aid
- 2. The origins and early decades of aid-giving
- 3. Aid-giving from the 1970's to the present
- 4. The growing web of bilateral aid donors
- 5. The complexities of multilateral aid
- Part II: Why is aid given?
- 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
- Part III: Does aid really work?
- 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. NGO's 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
- Part IV: Towards a different future for 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.
