Does foreign aid really work?
Roger Riddell (Author)
Provided for over 60 years, and expanding more rapidly today than it has for a generation, foreign aid is now a $100bn business. But does it work? Indeed, is it needed at all? In this first-ever, overall assessment of aid, Roger Riddell provides a rigorous but highly readable account of aid, warts and all.
Print Book, English, cop. 2007
Oxford University Press, Oxford, cop. 2007
1 vol. (XXVI-505 p.) : graph., tabl., couv. ill. en coul. ; 25 cm
9780199295654, 9780199544462, 0199295654, 0199544468
494494307
'A good thing?'
pt. 1. The complex worlds of foreign aid
The origins and early decades of aid-giving
Aid-giving from the 1970s to the present
The growing web of bilateral aid donors
The complexities of multilateral aid
pt. 2. Why is aid given?
The political and commercial dimensions of aid
Public support for aid
Charity or duty? The moral case for aid
The moral case for governments and individuals to provide aid
pt. 3. Does aid really work?
Assessing and measuring the impact of aid
The impact of official development aid projects
The impact of programme aid, technical assistance and aid for capacity development
The impact of aid at the country and cross-country level
Assessing the impact of aid conditionality
Does official development aid really work? A summing up
NGOs in development and the impact of discrete NGO development interventions
The wider impact of non-governmental and civil society organizations
The growth of emergencies and the humanitarian response
The impact of emergency and humanitarian aid
pt. 4. Towards a different future for aid
Why aid isn't working
Making aid work better by implementing agreed reforms
Making aid work better by recasting aid relationships