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Reinventing foreign aid

Author: William Easterly
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.
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The urgency of reducing poverty in the developing world has been the subject of a public campaign by such unlikely policy experts as George Clooney, Alicia Keyes, Elton John, Angelina Jolie, and Bono. And yet accompanying the call for more foreign aid is an almost universal discontent with the effectiveness of the existing aid system. In Reinventing Foreign Aid, development expert William Easterly has gathered top  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Reinventing foreign aid.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008
(OCoLC)747305607
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: William Easterly
ISBN: 9780262550666 0262550660 9780262050906 0262050900
OCLC Number: 123349624
Description: x, 567 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Making aid work / Abhijit Banerjee and Ruimin He --
Use of randomization in the evaluation of development effectiveness / Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer --
It pays to be ignorant : a simple political economy of rigorous program evaluation / Lant Pritchett --
Solutions when the solution is the problem : arraying the disarray in development / Lant Pritchett and Michael Woolcock --
Donors and service delivery / Ritva Reinikka --
The illusion of sustainability / Michael Kremer and Edward Miguel --
An aid-institutions paradox? : a review essay on aid dependency and state building in Sub-Saharan Africa / Todd Moss, Gunilla Pettersson, and Nicolas van de Walle --
Why do aid agencies exist? / Bertin Martens --
Absorption capacity and disbursement constraints / Jakob Svensson --
Donor fragmentation / Stephen Knack and Aminur Rahman --
The IMF and economic development / James Raymond Vreeland --
The knowledge bank / Jonathan Morduch --
Debt relief and fiscal sustainability for heavily indebted poor countries / Craig Burnside and Domenico Fanizza --
Making vaccines pay / Michael Kremer --
Can we build a better mousetrap? Three new insitutions designed to improve aid effectiveness / Steven Radelet and Ruth Levine --
Competing with central planning : marketplaces for international aid / Dennis Whittle and Mari Kuraishi --
Placing enterprise and business thinking at the heart of the war on poverty / Kurt Hoffman --
Avoid hubris: and other lessons for reformers / John McMillan --
Seven deadly sins: reflections on donor fallings / Nancy Birdsall.
Responsibility: edited by William Easterly ; foreword by Nancy Birdsall ; sponsored by the Center for Global Development.
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Discusses how to improve the effectiveness of foreign aid, proposing practical solutions to specific problems rather than a utopian master plan. This work also includes writers who look at scientific  Read more...

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