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Author : Patrick Guillaumont
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Big Push Versus Absorptive Capacity written by Patrick Guillaumont and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Mavrotas
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191573841
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Foreign Aid for Development written by George Mavrotas and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreign aid is one of the few topics in the development discourse with such an uninterrupted, yet volatile history in terms of interest and attention from academics, policymakers, and practitioners alike. Does aid work in promoting growth and reducing poverty in the developing world? Will a new 'big push' approach accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals or will another opportunity be missed? Can the lessons of almost half a century of aid giving be learnt? These are truly important questions in view of the emerging new landscape in foreign aid and recent developments related to the global financial crisis, which are expected to have far reaching implications for both donors and recipients engaged in this area. Against this shifting aid landscape, there is a pressing need to evaluate progress to date and shed new light on emerging issues and agendas. This volume brings together leading aid experts to review the progress achieved so far, identify the challenges ahead, and discuss the emerging policy agenda in foreign aid. A central conclusion of this important and timely volume is that, since development aid remains crucial for many developing countries, a huge effort is needed from both donors and aid recipients to overcome the inefficiencies and make aid work better for poor people. After all, as global citizens, we have a moral obligation to do the best we can to lift people out of poverty in the developing world. The findings of this book will be of considerable interest to professionals and policymakers engaged in policy reforms in foreign aid, and provide an essential one-stop reference for students of development, international finance, and economics.
Author : Byron Lew
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783474599
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)
Download or read book Handbook on the Economics of Foreign Aid written by Byron Lew and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It would be fair to say that foreign aid today is one of the most important factors in international relations and in the national economy of many countries – as well as one of the most researched fields in economics. Although much has been written on the subject of foreign aid, this book contributes by taking stock of knowledge in the field, with chapters summarizing long-standing debates as well as the latest advances. Several contributions provide new analytical insights or empirical evidence on different aspects of aid, including how aid may be linked to trade and the motives for aid giving. As a whole, the book demonstrates how researchers have dealt with increasingly complex issues over time – both theoretical and empirical – on the allocation, impact, and efficacy of aid, with aid policies placed at the center of the discussion. In addition to students, academics, researchers, and policymakers involved in development economics and foreign aid, this Handbook will appeal to all those interested in development issues and international policies.
Author : Kim Forss
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000167933
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Long Term Perspectives in Evaluation written by Kim Forss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long Term Perspectives in Evaluation is the first book to advocate the virtues of a long-term perspective for policy evaluation as well as to show how evaluations can take a longer time perspective than they usually do. To get there, it is necessary to understand the decision-making context of evaluations and study the obstacles and the resistance toward long-term perspectives – as knowledge of that will lay the ground for more effective advocacy. The book is divided into three parts: the first section examines different aspects of methodology and methods. In the next section, authors present case studies of long-term evaluations, examine their own experiences of such evaluations and discuss difficulties, challenges and lessons learned. Cases discussed include: education sector reforms in Sweden, local governance reforms in Denmark, policy interventions in Southern Italy and Brazil, and Paris Declaration Principles of aid effectiveness such as Swedish aid to Tanzania, Vietnam, Laos and Sri Lanka. Finally, the third section sees the authors turn to a set of contextual issues and concluding remarks. Bringing together a rich collection of insights and a renowned group of experts, Long Term Perspectives in Evaluation: Increasing Relevance and Utility, constitutes a significant landmark in the field.
Author : Hossein Razavi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000232719
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Political Environment Of Economic Planning In Iran, 1971-1983 written by Hossein Razavi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Political Environment of Economic Planning in Iran, 1971-1983: From Monarchy to Islamic Republic Hossein Razavi and Firouz Vakil Based on both research and first-hand experience, this book provides a politico-economic analysis of the operation of Iran's economy before and after the revolution of February 1979. The authors discuss the function and effectiveness of economic planning during the shah's tenure and relate the shortcomings of plan preparation and implementation to the explosive psycho-economic instability of the regime. They then discuss the institutional problems that the revolutionary regime has been facing in operating the economy and foresee the possible consequences of its failure to appropriately deal with these problems. Finally, analyzing the economic postures of important opposition groups, the authors outline future prospects for economic planning in Iran.
Author : Robert D. Lamb
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442225068
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Rethinking Absorptive Capacity written by Robert D. Lamb and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When recipients cannot absorb the aid and attention they are offered, the common response is “capacity building”—as if the source of the problem is the recipient’s implementation capacity. In this report, Robert D. Lamb and Kathryn Mixon present the results of their research on the sources of absorptive capacity. They find that this sort of “blaming the victim” mentality, while common, is not always justified. While it is true that many aid recipients do not have adequate capacity for implementation, it is equally true that many aid programs are designed and implemented without an adequate appreciation of local desires, resources, capabilities, and challenges. Absorptive capacity, in other words, is a byproduct of the donor-recipient relationship. The authors present a new framework for measuring absorptive capacity. This framework is intended to supplement existing planning, monitoring, and evaluation processes, offering a new way to test whether an existing approach is compatible with local conditions and a method for improving the fit.
Author : Dilip K. Das
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349182915
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Migration of Financial Resources to Developing Countries written by Dilip K. Das and published by Springer. This book was released on 1986-07-21 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hossein Razavi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000304590
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Political Environment Of Economic Planning In Iran, 1971-1983 written by Hossein Razavi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Political Environment of Economic Planning in Iran, 1971-1983: From Monarchy to Islamic Republic Hossein Razavi and Firouz Vakil Based on both research and first-hand experience, this book provides a politico-economic analysis of the operation of Iran's economy before and after the revolution of February 1979. The authors discuss the function and effectiveness of economic planning during the shah's tenure and relate the shortcomings of plan preparation and implementation to the explosive psycho-economic instability of the regime. They then discuss the institutional problems that the revolutionary regime has been facing in operating the economy and foresee the possible consequences of its failure to appropriately deal with these problems. Finally, analyzing the economic postures of important opposition groups, the authors outline future prospects for economic planning in Iran.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264086897
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (64 download)
Download or read book African Economic Outlook 2010 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Economic Outlook 2010 focuses on public resource mobilisation and aid in Africa, presenting a comprehensive review of best practices in tax administration, policies and multilateral agreements, including recommendations for meeting future challenges.
Author : Philippe Lombaerde
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402094558
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Aid for Trade: Global and Regional Perspectives written by Philippe Lombaerde and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-02-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aid for Trade (AfT) has become a major item on the international trade and development discourse. This is to a large extent in response to concerns expressed by developing countries and economies in transition with regard to their capacities to implement trade agreements, especially WTO agreements, and undertake necessary adjustments to increase net development gains from emerging trade opportunities. In this World Report, major UN agencies active in development cooperation and longstanding providers of trade-related technical assistance and capacity building discuss ways to sustain the momentum towards the operationalization and implementation of the AfT initiative and the supportive role to be played by the UN system. This is consistent with UN's role in promoting development and helping to achieve poverty reduction, as committed in the Millennium Declaration and the 2005 World Summit Outcome. The Report should be of particular interest to government officials, officials of regional organizations, representatives of the private sector dealing with trade agreements and negotiations, civil society and academia. Supachai Panitchpakdi, Secretary-General of UNCTAD Lakshmi Puri is Acting Deputy Secretary-General and Director of the Division on International Trade and Services, and Commodities at UNCTAD in Geneva. Philippe De Lombaerde is Associate Director of United Nations University (UNU-CRIS) in Bruges. In collaboration with: UNCTAD, ECA, ECLAC, ESCAP, ESCWA, UNECE, UNIDO, UNDP, UNEP
Author : Roger C. Riddell
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191623180
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Does Foreign Aid Really Work? written by Roger C. Riddell and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-08-07 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreign aid is now a $100bn business and is expanding more rapidly today than it has for a generation. But does it work? Indeed, is it needed at all? Other attempts to answer these important questions have been dominated by a focus on the impact of official aid provided by governments. But today possibly as much as 30 percent of aid is provided by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and over 10 percent is provided as emergency assistance. In this first-ever attempt to provide an overall assessment of aid, Roger Riddell presents a rigorous but highly readable account of aid, warts and all. Does Foreign Aid Really Work? sets out the evidence and exposes the instances where aid has failed and explains why. The book also examines the way that politics distorts aid, and disentangles the moral and ethical assumptions that lie behind the belief that aid does good. The book concludes by detailing the practical ways that aid needs to change if it is to be the effective force for good that its providers claim it is.
Author : Swapnendu Banerjee
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 8132224558
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (322 download)
Download or read book Understanding Development written by Swapnendu Banerjee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses topical development issues in India, ranging from land acquisition, poverty alleviation programs, labor market issues, the public-private partnership (PPP) model and fiscal federalism. It offers an Indian perspective on the dynamics of economic development and the impact the country’s legal and public policies have on it. Economic development is a dynamic concept – old problems are solved, while at the same time new issues come to the fore. The emergence of these issues is unique to the development experience of an economy. The book includes sixteen recent contributions and is divided into four sections: law and contract; trade and foreign aid; issues in public economics; and the social sector and poverty alleviation. The chapters reflect on a number of development issues which were of concern for India in the recent past and will be important in her future development initiatives such as land acquisition, agricultural productivity, employment, protection of intellectual property rights, corruption, public-private partnership, regional development, poverty alleviations programs like the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) and the training of self-help group members, health and education of women, to name a few. The book is a valuable reference resource for policy practitioners and researchers working on the economics of development with special focus on developing economies.
Author : Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113700357X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book International Development Policy written by Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International development cooperation is undergoing a revolution. The authors question how far bilateral and multilateral aid agencies succeed in mainstreaming global issues in their operations and assess how emerging and traditional donors address competing objectives, often with diverging rationales. Cases include Brazil, China and South Africa.
Author : T. Addison
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230594077
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Development Finance in the Global Economy written by T. Addison and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A positive chapter has begun in finance for poor countries. Yet progress remains tentative. This book looks at how to make international finance better serve the needs of poor countries and poor people. It contains contributions by economists and political scientists who have been at the centre of the international policy debate.
Author : Stijns Jean-Philippe
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264173242
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (641 download)
Download or read book Development Centre Studies Can we still Achieve the Millennium Development Goals? From Costs to Policies written by Stijns Jean-Philippe and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-18 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study contributes to the current debate on achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), their relevance and what can be done after 2015, by looking at estimates of the cost of reaching the goals in 2015.
Author : Ernest Aryeetey
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191640484
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Companion to the Economics of Africa written by Ernest Aryeetey and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa is a diverse continent. But is there a pattern to the diversity? Are there commonalities across the countries? And what does economics tell us about the diversity and the commonalities? The Oxford Companion to the Economics of Africa is a definitive and comprehensive account of the key issues and topics affecting Africa's ability to grow and develop. It includes 53 thematic and 48 country perspectives by a veritable who's who of more than 100 leading economic analysts of Africa. The contributors include: bright new African researchers based in Africa; renowned academics from the top Universities in Africa, Europe and North America; present and past Chief Economists of the African Development Bank; present and past Chief Economists for Africa of the World Bank; present and past Chief Economists of the World Bank; African Central Bank governors and finance ministers; and four Nobel Laureates in Economics.
Author : Charlie Karlsson
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857932675
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Economic Geography written by Charlie Karlsson and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main purpose of this Handbook is to provide overviews and assessments of the state-of-the-art regarding research methods, approaches and applications central to economic geography. The chapters are written by distinguished researchers from a variet
