Working Together To Make Aid More Effective

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. International Development Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215521903
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Working Together to Make Aid More Effective written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. International Development Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working together to make aid more Effective : Ninth report of session 2007-08, Vol. 2: Oral and written Evidence

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Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821332221
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strengthening the Effectiveness of Aid written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation The World Bank and international donor agencies invest substantial resources and effort in development. A continuing challenge is to ensure that assistance is provided and used as effectively as possible. This book surveys recent findings on the effectiveness of aid and the steps the Bank and other development institutions are taking to assess and improve their operations. It examines specific methods for achieving better coordination within programs and among donors and brings together recommendations on how countries and agencies can improve the administration of aid. The study concludes that five conditions are essential for aid to be effective: - Ownership by the government and participation by the affected people - Strong administrative and institutional capacity - Sound policies and good public sector management - Close coordination by donors - Improvements in aid agencies' own business practices.

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Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780195211238
Total Pages : 164 pages
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Download or read book Assessing Aid written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessing Aid determines that the effectiveness of aid is not decided by the amount received but rather the institutional and policy environment into which it is accepted. It examines how development assistance can be more effective at reducing global poverty and gives five mainrecommendations for making aid more effective: targeting financial aid to poor countries with good policies and strong economic management; providing policy-based aid to demonstrated reformers; using simpler instruments to transfer resources to countries with sound management; focusing projects oncreating and transmitting knowledge and capacity; and rethinking the internal incentives of aid agencies.

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 : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. International Development Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215521873
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Working Together to Make Aid More Effective written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. International Development Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working together to make aid more Effective : Ninth report of session 2007-08, Vol. 1: Report, together with formal Minutes

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264056432
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Better Aid Civil Society and Aid Effectiveness Findings, Recommendations and Good Practice written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-03 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a resource for implementing the recommendations on civil society and aid effectiveness emerging from the Accra High Level Forum and its preparatory process.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264098100
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Accra Agenda for Action written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to strengthen and deepen implementation of the Paris Declaration, the Accra Agenda for Action (AAA) takes stock of progress and sets the agenda for accelerated advancement towards improving the quality and impact of aid.

Author : Ian Goldin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198736258
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Development written by Ian Goldin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is development -- How does development happen? -- Why are some countries rich and others poor? -- What can be done to accelerate development? -- The evolution of development aid -- Sustainable development -- Globalization and development -- The future of development.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789264060210
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Better Aid Managing Aid Practices of DAC Member Countries written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book outlines what individual donor countries are doing to fulfill their development co-operation ambitions and their part of international agreements.

Author : George Mavrotas
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191573841
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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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.