TY  - BOOK
AU  - Riddell,Roger
TI  - Does foreign aid really work?
SN  - 9780199544462 (Pbk.)
AV  - HC 60 R543d  2008
U1  - 338.91 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Economic assistance
KW  - Evaluation
KW  - Asistencia económica
KW  - Evaluación
N1  - Bibliogr. p. [457]-487. Index; '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
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