Foreign Aid and Development: Lessons Learnt and Directions for the FutureFinn Tarp, Peter Hjertholm Psychology Press, 2000 - 498 pages 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 conventional wisdom and current practice is challenged. As well as offering important new research material, the book opens up new directions for future practice and policy. It will be of vital interest to those working in economics, politics and development studies, as well as to governmental and aid professionals. |
Contents
PART I | 3 |
The evolution of the development doctrine and the role | 17 |
Tables | 22 |
The role of government in economic development | 48 |
background and trends 88 | 80 |
Aid effectiveness disputed | 103 |
1 | 109 |
4 | 120 |
PART III | 221 |
Gender equality and foreign aid | 247 |
1 WID approaches to gender and foreign aid | 269 |
Foreign aid development and the environment | 271 |
the case of public sector management | 290 |
Foreign aid and private sector development | 312 |
Financial sector aid | 332 |
Foreign aid and the macroeconomy | 351 |
1a Classification of regressions summarised in Table 4 1 | 127 |
From project aid to programme assistance | 131 |
4 | 138 |
Technical cooperation | 154 |
Sector programme assistance | 178 |
past present and future | 195 |
different price and market policies | 204 |
Foreign aid in the emerging global trade environment | 375 |
Aid and conflict | 392 |
Aid conditionality and debt in Africa | 409 |
Political economy of foreign aid | 423 |
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Foreign Aid and Development: Lessons Learnt and Directions For The Future Finn Tarp Limited preview - 2003 |
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