The Greening Of Aid

Author : Czech Conroy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134068697
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greening of Aid written by Czech Conroy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of poor countries has so often meant the export of Northern technology for ambitious schemes designed to make money the latest giant dam, oil refinery, logging process or pesticide factory. But such 'aid' has frequently been ecologically destructive and its crippling cost has ended up making life immeasurably worse for those it was supposed to help. Using examples from Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, Central and South America, this book shows there are forms of development that allow people to control their own resources while improving their condition and enhancing their environment. The 33 case studies from agriculture, fishing and industry were commissioned by the International Institute for Environment and Development from people closely involved in the projects, with overviews by Robert Chambers, John Michael Kramer, Marilyn Carr, David Butcher and Yves Cabannes. Originally published in 1988

Author : Robert L. Hicks
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199582793
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greening Aid? written by Robert L. Hicks and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than three decades, the impact of aid on the global environment has been the subject of vigorous protest and debate. With billions spent on environmental aid each year, this groundbreaking text seeks to understand why aid is given, how effective it is, and whether aid is actually going to the places with the greatest environmental need.

Author : Paul-Jasper Dittrich
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656502293
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greening Aid. Why Do Countries Give More or Less? written by Paul-Jasper Dittrich and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2013-09-23 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - Topic: Development Politics, grade: 1.0, University of Wrocław (Department for International Studies), course: Theory and Politics of Foreign Aid, language: English, abstract: The essay examines the motives of "green aid" and seeks to show the hidden agenda behind most green or ecologically motivated aid.

Author : Beate Sjåfjell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317664728
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greening of European Business under EU Law written by Beate Sjåfjell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between environmentally sustainable development and company and business law has emerged in recent years as a matter of major concern for many scholars, policy-makers, businesses and nongovernmental organisations. This book offers a conceptual analysis of the principles of sustainable development and environmental integration in the EU legal system. It particularly focuses on Article 11 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), which states that EU activities must integrate environmental protection requirements and emphasise the promotion of sustainable development. The book gives an overview of the role played by the environmental integration principle in EU law, both at the level of European legislation and at the level of Member State practice. Contributors to the volume identify and analyse the main legal issues related to the importance of Article 11 TFEU in various policy areas of EU law affecting European businesses, such as company law, insurance and state aid. In drawing together these strands the book sets out the requirements of environmental integration and examines its impact on the regulation of business in the EU. The book will be of great use and interest to students and researchers of business law, environment law, and EU law.

Author : Yongfu Huang
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811053790
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aid Effectiveness for Environmental Sustainability written by Yongfu Huang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines the role that foreign aid can play in dealing with the severe global challenge of climate change, one of the most pressing international development issues of the 21st century. Addressing the key threats of rising temperatures, changes in precipitation, coastal erosion and natural disasters, the book considers the implications for policy and future research, particularly in developing countries. Focusing on the worth of foreign aid in ensuring environmental sustainability, this collection consider how it can be used to improve access to sustainable energy, to promote efficient use of energy resources, to improve emission reduction and support the preservation of biodiversity in forests. Advancing our knowledge about foreign aid and climate change, it provides policy recommendations for the donors and recipient country governments. A cutting edge text on one of the most pressing international development issues of this century, this is key reading for all scholars of international development and climate change.

Author : Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262260395
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Aid Work written by Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2007-03-23 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An encouraging account of the potential of foreign aid to reduce poverty and a challenge to all aid organizations to think harder about how they spend their money. With more than a billion people now living on less than a dollar a day, and with eight million dying each year because they are simply too poor to live, most would agree that the problem of global poverty is our greatest moral challenge. The large and pressing practical question is how best to address that challenge. Although millions of dollars flow to poor countries, the results are often disappointing. In Making Aid Work, Abhijit Banerjee—an "aid optimist"—argues that aid has much to contribute, but the lack of analysis about which programs really work causes considerable waste and inefficiency, which in turn fuels unwarranted pessimism about the role of aid in fostering economic development. Banerjee challenges aid donors to do better. Building on the model used to evaluate new drugs before they come on the market, he argues that donors should assess programs with field experiments using randomized trials. In fact, he writes, given the number of such experiments already undertaken, current levels of development assistance could focus entirely on programs with proven records of success in experimental conditions. Responding to his challenge, leaders in the field—including Nicholas Stern, Raymond Offenheiser, Alice Amsden, Ruth Levine, Angus Deaton, and others—question whether randomized trials are the most appropriate way to evaluate success for all programs. They raise broader questions as well, about the importance of aid for economic development and about the kinds of interventions (micro or macro, political or economic) that will lead to real improvements in the lives of poor people around the world. With one in every six people now living in extreme poverty, getting it right is crucial.

Author : Naomi Hossain
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019878550X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Aid Lab written by Naomi Hossain and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an unpromising start as 'the basket-case' to present day plaudits for its human development achievements, Bangladesh plays an ideological role in the contemporary world order, offering proof that the neo-liberal development model works under the most testing conditions. How were such rapid gains possible in a context of chronically weak governance? The Aid Lab subjects this so-called 'Bangladesh paradox' to close scrutiny, evaluating public policies and their outcomes for poverty and development since Bangladesh's independence in 1971. Countering received wisdom that its gains owe to an early shift to market-oriented economic reform, it argues that a binding political settlement, a social contract to protect against the crises of subsistence and survival, united the elite, the masses, and their aid donors in the wake of the devastating famine of 1974. This laid resilient foundations for human development, fostering a focus on the poorest and most precarious, and in particular on the concerns of women. In chapters examining the environmental, political and socioeconomic crisis of the 1970s, the book shows how the lessons of the famine led to a robustly pro-poor growth and social policy agenda, empowering the Bangladeshi state and its non-governmental organizations to protect and enable its population to thrive in its engagements in the global economy. Now a middle-income country, Bangladesh's role as the world's laboratory for aided development has generated lessons well beyond its borders, and Bangladesh continues to carve a pioneering pathway through the risks of global economic integration and climate change.

Author : Dambisa Moyo
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374139563
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dead Aid written by Dambisa Moyo and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debunking the current model of international aid promoted by both Hollywood celebrities and policy makers, Moyo offers a bold new road map for financing development of the world's poorest countries.

Author : Deborah Brautigam
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312210618
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Aid and African Development written by Deborah Brautigam and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1998 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the enduring question of aid effectiveness through an original and detailed analysis of China's foreign aid program in rural Africa.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Millennium Challenge Account written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: