Development Finance in the Global Economy The Road Ahead

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ISBN: 9780230202481 | 0230202489
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Copyright: 5/15/2008

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A positive chapter has begun in finance for poor countries. Yet progress remains tentative. This book looks at how to make international finance better serve the needs of poor countries and poor people. It contains contributions by economists and political scientists who have been at the center of the international policy debate.

List of Tables and Figures	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Notes on the Contributors	p. xiv
List of Abbreviations	p. xvii
Development Finance in the Global Economy: The Road Ahead	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
Private development financing	p. 3
Official development assistance	p. 7
New sources of development finance	p. 10
Overview of this volume	p. 13
Conclusions	p. 19
Foreign Aid Resurgent: New Spirit or Old Hangover?	p. 24
Introduction	p. 24
Foreign aid - down but not out	p. 24
New spirit	p. 26
Explaining recent developments	p. 29
Political development aid: from rise to denouement?	p. 33
Big debates, familiar conclusions?	p. 38
Multilateral Development Assistance: Good, Bad or Just Plain Ugly?	p. 43
Introduction	p. 43
Aid and financial flows to developing countries, 1960-2002	p. 44
Multilateral agency performance: further assessments	p. 59
Conclusion	p. 66
Political Economy of Additional Development Finance	p. 70
Introduction	p. 70
Raising finance	p. 72
A global allocating mechanism	p. 111
Conclusion	p. 120
Financing Global and Regional Public Goods through ODA: Analysis and Evidence from the OECD Creditor Reporting System	p. 124
Introduction	p. 124
Defining global public goods: international, regional and global	p. 126
ODA and international public goods: the CRS data set	p. 129
Modelling the trade-off between ownership and GPG supply	p. 131
Empirical analysis	p. 138
Conclusions	p. 144
Multi-Actor Global Funds: New Tools to Address Urgent Global Problems	p. 151
Introduction	p. 151
Political context: MGFs and international organizations	p. 153
Evaluating the potential of MGFs	p. 154
Conclusions	p. 165
The Transition from Official Aid to Private Capital Flows: Implications for a Developing Country	p. 170
Introduction	p. 170
The changing profile of India's capital account	p. 172
Capital flows and effects on macroeconomic aggregates	p. 175
Capital flows and the financial sector	p. 183
Policy implications and conclusion	p. 189
The Millennium Challenge Account: Transforming US Foreign Assistance Policy?	p. 197
Introduction	p. 197
Narrower objectives	p. 199
Selecting for success?	p. 200
Beyond selection: improving the aid bureaucracy	p. 206
Designing better programmes	p. 208
Conclusion: a unilateral approach	p. 210
Debt Relief: The Development and Poverty Impact	p. 216
Introduction	p. 216
The present situation	p. 217
The implications for aid flows	p. 222
The impact of debt relief	p. 225
Conclusions	p. 231
Remittances and Financial Inclusion in Development	p. 236
Introduction	p. 236
Trends in remittances	p. 237
The effect of remittances on financial inclusion	p. 242
Research design	p. 248
Regression results	p. 250
Conclusions	p. 256
Index	p. 265
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