Aid: Understanding International Development Cooperation

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This benchmark study by two leading authorities on international development cooperation argues that taxpayer-financed aid remains the best mechanism for promoting greater equality between North and South and within the countries of the South.

Therefore it should be continued while at the same time being made more effective and efficient, and the authors present ideas to achieve this. They conclude by examining new modes of financing development and new modes of international cooperation aimed at bringing about growth and human development.

This major study - replete with detailed statistical and factual information, comprehensive in scope, and penetrating in its analysis - is likely to stand as the authoritative account of international aid for many years.

 

Contents

Introduction
1
Motives and Interests
7
Political and economic motives and interests12 Environmental
16
The micro level and arguments for aid to the poor20 Recipient
23
Aid Strategies
39
Size and Distribution of Foreign Aid
56
Official Bilateral Assistance
74
Multilateral Aid
94
The Role of NGOs in Development Cooperation
143
Actors in Aid Interaction
174
ΙΟ Emergency Relief and Humanitarian Assistance
199
The Impact of Aid
230
Problems and Challenges of Development Cooperation
267
Corruption and political culture273 Democratization human
281
Aid through an international development fund286 International
311
APPENDIX Donor Countries and Recipient Countries
317

Political expectations for multilateral aid98 Size and composition
131

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