ABSTRACT

Peter Hjertholm, Editorial Assistant Aid has worked in the past but can be made to work better in the future. In this important new book, leading economists and political scientists, including experienced aid practitioners, re-examine foreign aid. The evolution of development doctrine over the past fifty years is critically investigated, and conven

chapter |10 pages

Foreign aid and development

part |1 pages

Part I Major themes

chapter 2|23 pages

The role of government in economic development

ByIRMA ADELMAN

chapter 3|19 pages

Foreign aid in historical perspective

chapter 4|22 pages

Aid effectiveness disputed

ByHENRIK HANSEN, FINN TARP

part |1 pages

Part II Aid instruments

chapter 5|19 pages

From project aid to programme assistance

ByPAUL MOSLEY, MARION J. EECKHOUT

chapter 6|19 pages

Technical co-operation

ByCHANNING ARNDT

chapter 7|13 pages

Sector programme assistance

ByOLE MØLGÅRD ANDERSEN

chapter 8|19 pages

Food aid as an aid instrument

part |1 pages

Part III Economic perspectives on aid design

chapter 9|19 pages

Using aid to reduce poverty

ByJOHN HEALEY, TONY KILLICK

chapter 10|19 pages

Gender equality and foreign aid

ByLISA ANN RICHEY

chapter 11|15 pages

Foreign aid, development and the environment

ByRASMUS HELTBERG, UFFE NIELSEN

chapter 12|17 pages

Aid and failed reforms

chapter 13|16 pages

Foreign aid and private sector development

ByMADS VÁCZY KRAGH, JØRGEN BIRK MORTENSEN, HENRIK SCHAUMBURG-MÜLLER AND HANS PETER SLENTE

chapter 14|15 pages

Financial sector aid

chapter 15|17 pages

Foreign aid and the macroeconomy

ByPETER HJERTHOLM, JYTTE LAURSEN, HOWARD WHITE

part |1 pages

Part IV Broader issues

chapter 16|14 pages

Foreign aid in the emerging global trade environment

ByOLIVER MORRISSEY

chapter 17|13 pages

Aid and conflict

ByTONY ADDISON

chapter 18|11 pages

Aid, conditionality and debt in Africa

ByRAVI KANBUR

chapter 19|20 pages

Political economy of foreign aid

ByRAYMOND F. HOPKINS