Includes bibliographical references (p. [457]-487) and index.
Contents:
Systemic issues -- List of tables -- List of boxes -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- The good thing?' -- pt.1. The complex worlds of foreign aid -- 2. The origins and early decades of aid-giving -- Defining aid -- A snapshot of the history of aid -- The origins of aid : the pre-1949 era -- The 1950s to the 1960s -- 3. Aid-giving from the 1970s to the present -- The 1970s and 1980s -- From the 1990s to today -- 4. The growing web of bilateral aid donors -- The ever-increasing number of donors -- The explosion in the numbers of non-governmental organizations -- The main bilateral donors -- The smaller bilateral donors -- 5. The complexities of multilateral aid -- What is multilateral aid and how much of it is there? -- The international financial institutions -- The United Nations, development and aid -- Other multilateral agencies -- Systemic issues -- 10. Expectations about the impact of aid -- 6. The political and commercial dimensions of aid -- Why governments give aid -- Politics and national self-interest in aid-giving -- Commercial interests in aid-giving -- The overall impact of political and commercial influences on aid -- Concluding comments -- 7. Public support for aid -- Trends in public support -- The reliability of public opinion surveys -- Public support for aid and public perception of its effectiveness -- 8. Charity or duty? The moral case for aid -- Facts on the ground -- Ethical theories and approaches -- 9. The moral case for governments and individuals to provide aid -- Donor governments : current and evolving views -- Aid and the nature of governments' moral obligations -- Ethics, voluntary aid-giving and the world of NGOs -- pt. 3. Does aid really work? -- 10. Assessing and measuring the impact of aid -- Methodological challenges and data-gaps -- Judging the impact and performance of aid : what questions need to be asked? -- Understanding how aid contributes to growth and development -- Expectations about the impact of aid -- The Capacity development and institutional strengthening -- Project aid : an overview -- Detailed project performance -- Data quality and the sustainability of official aid projects -- The wider picture -- Summing up -- 12. The impact of programme aid, technical assistance and aid for capacity development -- Programme aid -- Technical assistance -- Aid for capacity building -- 13. The impact of aid at the country and cross-country level -- The country-level impact of aid -- The impact of official development aid across countries -- 14. Assessing the impact of aid conditionality -- Aggregate aid impact and the policy environment -- Official donor conditionality and recipient response -- Does policy conditionality produce the results intended? -- Summing up -- 15. Does official development aid really work? A summing up -- The search for sustainability -- Effectiveness does matter -- 16. NGOs in development and the impact of discrete NGO development interventions -- NGOs : an overview -- Methodological challenges -- The impact of NGO development projects and programmes -- Cost-effectiveness, quality, innovation and replication -- Capacity development and institutional strengthening -- 22. Index. NGO advocacy, lobbying, awareness-raising and campaigning -- Strengthening NGOs and strengthening civil society -- The contribution of NGOs to development : a summing up -- 18. The growth of emergencies and the humanitarian response -- Emergencies and disasters : an overview -- The humanitarian aid response -- 19. The impact of emergency and humanitarian aid -- Assessing humanitarian aid -- The impact of humanitarian action and humanitarian aid -- Advocacy in humanitarian action -- Emergency and humanitarian aid : a summing up -- pt. 4. Towards a different future for aid -- 20. Why aid isn't working -- Systematic impediments to aid effectiveness : problems caused by donors -- Problems at the recipient end : aid dilemmas -- Conclusion -- 21. Making aid work better by implementing agreed reforms -- The discrete individual-donor approach -- The step-change international cooperative approach -- Taking stock -- 22. Making aid work better by recasting aid relationships -- Confronting the politics of aid-giving -- Recasting aid relationships -- Making aid work better : addressing five key problem areas -- Bridging the divide between ideas and implementation -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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