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Assessing the Impact of Foreign Aid

Value for Money and Aid for Trade

Viktor Jakupec editor Max Kelly editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc

Published:11th Nov '15

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This book provides an analysis and survey of the theories, policies, and methods driving foreign aid investments worldwide, and includes contributions from multilateral agencies and NGOs that discuss the changing patterns of official government assistance and their effects on a variety of factors.

Assessing the Impact of Foreign Aid: Value for Money and Aid for Trade provides updated information on how to improve foreign aid programs, exploring the concept and practice of impact assessment within the sometimes-unproblematic approaches advocated in current literature of value for money and aid for trade. Contributors from multi-lateral agencies and NGOs discuss the changing patterns of Official Development Assistance and their effects on impact assessment, providing theoretical, political, structural, methodological, and practical frameworks, discussions, and a theory-practice nexus. With twin foci of economics and policy this book raises the potential for making sophisticated and coherent decisions on aid allocation to developing countries.

"The book provides a fresh look into one of the most important unfinished agendas of foreign aid, i.e., the aid effectiveness agenda. It combines theoretical and practical contributions to propose new ways of thinking about the evaluation of the impact of aid, from its conceptualization to its implementation. It convincingly argues for the centrality of impact assessment in development programmes and it proposes reforms to ensure that such assessment truly contributes to making foreign aid an effective tool to improve lives in developing countries. The messages in the book should provide relevant food for thought for aid practioners, policy-makers, and academics alike."  --Massimiliano Calì, World Bank

ISBN: 9780128036600

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 590g

272 pages