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`Today's questions regarding foreign aid centre around aid allocation dynamics, the impact on trade and growth for receivers as well as donors, and, quite frequently, on aid effectiveness. The inter-relationship between aid and politics are also topics of high interest. These are precisely the issues that the Handbook edited by B. Mak Arvin and Byron Lew deals with. In more than 30 contributions, some highly renowned development scholars use the theoretical state of the art combined with empirically based econometric approaches to analyse various issues in the foreign aid field. It is a great pleasure for science-oriented readers to find a wealth of findings derived from hard data and rigorous analytical methods. The book is an excellent contribution to the current foreign aid discussion.' -- Siegfried Schoenherr, Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Germany `A title like Handbook on the Economics of Foreign Aid is ambitious; it promises coverage of literature that spans from theory to empirics, from macro to micro levels of analysis, from positive to normative economics. This Handbook fulfills this ambition 100 percent. It will be the single place that people will go to get a state-of-the-art survey of a particular issue. Some chapters are written by established experts in the area, others by newcomers that bring a fresh view on the issues involved. All in all, a book that future researchers in foreign aid must consult.' -- Pascalis Raimondos, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark `This edited volume offers the reader a particularly useful addition to our understanding of the economics of foreign aid. The author list is impressive and includes scholars from all corners of the planet. Matters of theory are dealt with carefully and intelligently and the empirical analysis is first class. The volume has all the hallmarks of a lasting contribution.' -- Parviz Dabir-Alai, Richmond University, UK `This Handbook provides a tremendously useful overview of the economics of foreign aid. It contains contributions by well-established and known scholars of foreign aid as well as by many fresh new voices, from both the developed and the developing world. It looks at both the determinants of aid, broadly conceived, and the manifold consequences of aid. It does so sometimes from a theoretical viewpoint, but mostly it is empirically oriented, aimed at providing us with better understanding. For anyone seeking to come up to speed with the state of the art in this important area of study, this Handbook is a first choice.' -- Eric Neumayer, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK `This Handbook thoroughly examines the allocation of foreign aid, aid effectiveness, and aid policies with an impressive group of contributing scholars and experts in this field. In-depth theoretical and advanced empirical analysis of the pertinence of the economics of foreign aid and international relations makes the Handbook an excellent read.' -- Sahar Bahmani, University of Wisconsin, Parkside, US

`Today's questions regarding foreign aid centre around aid allocation dynamics, the impact on trade and growth for receivers as well as donors, and, quite frequently, on aid effectiveness. The inter-relationship between aid and politics are also topics of high interest.These are precisely the issues that the Handbook edited by B. Mak Arvin and Byron Lew deals with. In more than 30 contributions, some highly renowned development scholars use the theoretical state of the art combined with empirically based econometric approaches to analyse various issues in the foreign aid field. It is a great pleasure for science-oriented readers to find a wealth of findings derived from hard data and rigorous analytical methods. The book is an excellent contribution to the current foreign aid discussion.' -- Siegfried Schonherr, Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Germany `A title like Handbook on the Economics of Foreign Aid is ambitious; it promises coverage of literature that spans from theory to empirics, from macro to micro levels of analysis, from positive to normative economics. This Handbook fulfills this ambition 100 percent. It will be the single place that people will go to get a state-of-the-art survey of a particular issue. Some chapters are written by established experts in the area, others by newcomers that bring a fresh view on the issues involved. All in all, a book that future researchers in foreign aid must consult.' -- Pascalis Raimondos, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark `This edited volume offers the reader a particularly useful addition to our understanding of the economics of foreign aid. The author list is impressive and includes scholars from all corners of the planet. Matters of theory are dealt with carefully and intelligently and the empirical analysis is first class. The volume has all the hallmarks of a lasting contribution.' -- Parviz Dabir-Alai, Richmond University, UK `This Handbook provides a tremendously useful overview of the economics of foreign aid. It contains contributions by well-established and known scholars of foreign aid as well as by many fresh new voices, from both the developed and the developing world. It looks at both the determinants of aid, broadly conceived, and the manifold consequences of aid. It does so sometimes from a theoretical viewpoint, but mostly it is empirically oriented, aimed at providing us with better understanding. For anyone seeking to come up to speed with the state of the art in this important area of study, this Handbook is a first choice.' -- Eric Neumayer, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK `This Handbook thoroughly examines the allocation of foreign aid, aid effectiveness, and aid policies with an impressive group of contributing scholars and experts in this field. In-depth theoretical and advanced empirical analysis of the pertinence of the economics of foreign aid and international relations makes the Handbook an excellent read.' -- Sahar Bahmani, University of Wisconsin, Parkside, US

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Edited by B. Mak Arvin, Professor of Economics and Byron Lew, Associate Professor of Economics, Trent University, Canada

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