Overview

The success or failure of economic assistance programs is a shared responsibility of recipient countries and donors. The negative attitude about aid prevalent today underscores a perception the aid has failed. Critics often blame corrupt regimes, weak governments, or poor economic policies. However, the poor track record of aid is also due to donors' inability to allocate limited funds effectively and poor coordination of their aid efforts. Declining aid budgets have led to fundamental questioning of foreign aid's allocation and utility, while the apparent ineffectiveness of aid has shrunk aid budgets and turned public opinion against providing it. This edited collection containing pieces written by leading development specialists evaluates these emerging questions of allocation and efficiency. Development economists, policy makers, and development specialists will benefit from reading this work. Chapters examine the optimal and intertemporal allocation of aid, the role and accountability of NGOs in allocation, the importance of untying (a new perspective on low levels of aid), and links between the allocation pattern of donors. Additional chapters deal with the impact of aid on economic growth, democracy, wage inequality between skilled and unskilled labor, and the role of governance and institutional capacity in aid effectiveness. An effective balance between theoretical and empirical models is offered to better illustrate the issues involved.

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Author:   B. Mak Arvin
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.595kg
ISBN:  

9780275975494

ISBN 10:   0275975495
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   30 May 2002
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Allocation of International Aid Modelling Inter-Temporal Aid Allocation to Papua New Guinea by Simon Feeny and Mark McGillivray Multilateral Aid Coordination by the International Financial Institutions: An Examination of Canadian Development Assistance to Sub-Saharan Africa by Dane Rowlands and Ian Ketcheson Aid Principles and Policy: An Operational Basis for the Assessment of Donor Performance by Mark McGillivray, Jennifer Leavy, and Howard White Interventions, Accountability, and Aid: Narrowing the Gap Between NGO Priorities and Local Realities by Craig A. Johnson Foreign Aid and Donor Export Performance: The Case of Germany by Siegfried Schönherr and Kurt Vogler-Ludwig Coordinated and Uncoordinated Foreign Aid by Sajal Lahiri and Pascalis Raimondos-Møller Impact of Aid on Development Empirical Evidence of Foreign Aid and Economic Growth Relationship: The Case of the Solomon Islands by Rukmani Gounder Component of Donors' Foreign Aid Policies? by B. Mak Arvin, Francisco Barillas, and Byron Lew Policy Implications for Aid Allocations of Recent Research on Aid Effectiveness and Selectivity by Jonathan Beynon Foreign Aid, Wage Inequality, and Skill Formation in a North-South Product-Cycle Model by Michael Benarroch and James Gaisford Index

Reviews

"""This brilliantly edited volume presents a splendid and informative discussion on the needed and timely topic of Foreign Assistance, focusing on allocation and efficiency of Aid. Its comprehensive and balanced approach make it an excellent reference text for not only the graduate students and researchers in the field of development economies, but also to the politicians and the policy makers. [It] Should be on the shelf of every library."" Ismail Shariff, Hendrickson Professor of Business, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay"

This brilliantly edited volume presents a splendid and informative discussion on the needed and timely topic of Foreign Assistance, focusing on allocation and efficiency of Aid. Its comprehensive and balanced approach make it an excellent reference text for not only the graduate students and researchers in the field of development economies, but also to the politicians and the policy makers. [It] Should be on the shelf of every library. Ismail Shariff, Hendrickson Professor of Business, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay

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B. MAK ARVIN is Professor of Economics at Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario.

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