Finn Tarp (ed.)

Foreign Aid and Development

Lessons Learnt and Directions for the Future
Herausgeber: Tarp, Finn

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 812g
• ISBN-13: 9780415233637
• ISBN-10: 0415233631
• Artikelnr.: 21539420

Autorenporträt

Finn Tarp

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables List of figures List of Contributors List of Acronyms and
abbreviations Preface Foreign aid development: Summary and synthesis
Sherman Robinson and Finn Tarp PART I: Major themes 1. The evolution of the
development doctrine and the role of foreign aid, 1950-2000 Erik Thorbecke
2. The role of government in economic development Irma Adelman 3. Foreign
aid in historical perspective: background and trends Peter Hjertholm and
Howard White 4. Aid effectiveness disputed Henrik Hansen and Finn Tarp PART
II 5. From project aid to programme assistance Paul Mosley and Marion J.
Eeckhout 6. Technical co-operation Channing Arndt 7. Sector programme
assistance Ole Mølgård Andersen 8. Food aid as an aid instrument: past,
present and future Bjørg Colding and Per Pinstrup-Andersen PART III
Economic perspectives on aid design 9. Using aid to reduce poverty John
Healey and Tony Killick 10. Gender equality and foreign aid Lisa Ann Richey
11. Foreign aid, development and the environment Rasmus Heltberg and Uffe
Nielsen 12. Aid and failed reforms: the case of public sector management
Elliot J. Berg 13. Foreign aid and private sector development Mads Váczy
Kragh, Jørgen Birk Mortensen, Henrik Schaumburg-Müller and Hans Peter
Slente 14. Financial sector aid Jens Kovsted 15. Foreign aid and the
macroeconomy Peter Hjertholm, Jytte Laursen and Howard White PART IV
Broader issues 16. Foreign aid in the emerging global trade environment
Oliver Morrissey 17, Aid and conflict Tony Addison 18. Aid, conditionality
and debt in Africa Ravi Kanbur 19. Political economy of foreign aid Raymond
F. Hopkins References Index