Foreign Aid for Development Issues, Challenges, and the New Agenda
, by Mavrotas, George
- ISBN: 9780199580934 | 0199580936
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 5/2/2010
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 pov
George Mavrotas is the Chief Economist of the Global Development Network (GDN), formerly a Fellow and Project Director at UNU-WIDER and, prior to that, in the Economics Faculties of the Universities of Oxford and Manchester. He is also a Visiting Professor at CERDI, University of Auvergne in Clermont-Ferrand, France. He is the author and co-author of more than 100 publications, including papers in leading peer-reviewed journals, chapters in edited volumes and books on a broad range of development issues. His publcations include Commodity Supply Management by Producing Countries (OUP); Advancing Development: Core Themes in Global Economics (Palgrave Macmillan) and Development Aid: A Fresh Look (Palgrave Macmillan). He holds a PhD in Economics (DPhil) from Oxford.
| List of Figures | p. xv |
| List of Tables | p. xvii |
| List of Abbreviations | p. xix |
| List of Contributors | p. xxiii |
| Foregin Aid for Development | |
| Introduction and Overview | p. 3 |
| Aid, Growth, and Development | p. 20 |
| Introduction | p. 20 |
| What is foreign aid? | p. 22 |
| Historical background | p. 28 |
| Aid allocation | p. 33 |
| The impact of foreign aid | p. 34 |
| Discussion of the current aid and development debate | p. 43 |
| Conclusion | p. 45 |
| Enhancing Aid Effectiveness | |
| Towards the Enhanced Effectiveness of Foreign Aid | p. 57 |
| Reconstructing the Aid Effectiveness Debate | p. 63 |
| Introduction | p. 63 |
| The CPIA-based selectivity approach to aid allocation as ex post policy conditionality | p. 66 |
| Critical appraisal of the selectivity approach as ex post policy conditionality | p. 74 |
| Alternative approaches to understanding aid effectiveness | p. 78 |
| Concluding remarks | p. 87 |
| The Implications of Horizontal Inequality for Aid | p. 94 |
| Introduction | p. 94 |
| Horizontal inequalities: what they are and why they matter for aid | p. 95 |
| Impacts of aid on horizontal inequalities | p. 97 |
| Aid policy to correct horizontal inequalities | p. 102 |
| Conclusions | p. 116 |
| Aid to Fragile and Conflict-affected Countries | |
| Conflict Prevention as a Policy Objective of Development Aid | p. 123 |
| Introduction | p. 123 |
| Violent conflict as an obstacle to achieving the MDGs | p. 124 |
| Addressing vulnerability to conflict | p. 130 |
| Reconceptualizing policy objectives of aid | p. 135 |
| Conclusions | p. 142 |
| Aid to Fragile States: Do Donors Help or Hinder? | p. 152 |
| Introduction | p. 152 |
| Failing development performance | p. 154 |
| Fragility factors: maturity, government size, leadership, conflict | p. 155 |
| Aiding fragility | p. 160 |
| Aid and will: engagement and consistency | p. 162 |
| Aid and capacity | p. 164 |
| Conclusion | p. 175 |
| Foreign Aid and Economic Development in Post-war Lebanon | p. 179 |
| Introduction | p. 179 |
| Forms of foreign aid in post-war Lebanon | p. 181 |
| Foreign aid for reconstruction | p. 182 |
| The macroeconomic road to the Paris II 'bailout' | p. 183 |
| The Paris III conference: enter the IMF | p. 189 |
| Conclusions | p. 191 |
| Aid Modalities | |
| Can New Aid Modalities Handle Politics? | p. 197 |
| Introduction | p. 197 |
| Monterrey: the political partnership? | p. 198 |
| Budget support, sector-wide approaches, and PRSPs | p. 201 |
| Direct assistance to the poor: solving poverty or the aid delivery problem | p. 204 |
| Economic growth | p. 208 |
| Governance as institutions and as politics | p. 208 |
| Aid and the politics of the fiscal contract | p. 212 |
| Politics and aid delivery | p. 214 |
| Monitoring and Evaluation Reform under Changing Aid Modalities | p. 222 |
| Introduction | p. 222 |
| The M&E reform agenda | p. 224 |
| Limited and unequal progress on the recipient side | p. 227 |
| Limited progress in implementing the donor-reform agenda | p. 233 |
| Which way forward? | p. 235 |
| Conclusion | p. 243 |
| Practical and Theoretical Implications of the Joint Evaluation of General Budget Support | p. 248 |
| Introduction | p. 248 |
| Charges against aid: how well does PGBS stand up to them? | p. 250 |
| Queries arising | p. 259 |
| Understanding PGBS effects: entitlements, rules, hierarchy, club, and market | p. 261 |
| Summary and conclusion | p. 269 |
| New Aid Modalities and Reporting Support for Child Rights: Lessons from Assessing Aid for Basic Social Services | p. 273 |
| Introduction | p. 273 |
| Consideration on reporting ODA for children | p. 274 |
| Aid for basic social services | p. 282 |
| Issues to consider in the development of a schematic approach for capturing ODA for Children | p. 289 |
| Concluding remarks | p. 293 |
| Managing Aid Flows | |
| 'Big Push' versus Absorptive Capacity: How to Reconcile the Two Approaches | p. 297 |
| Introduction | p. 297 |
| The underdevelopment trap: not the rule, but a risk for many-particularly the LDCs | p. 299 |
| Disbursement constraints: a need to reform procedures | p. 302 |
| Macroeconomic drawbacks from higher aid inflows: are they real? | p. 303 |
| Decreasing returns: occurring more slowly in vulnerable countries | p. 308 |
| Weakening institutions: towards performance-based conditionality | p. 313 |
| Conclusion: how to reconcile the two approaches | p. 317 |
| Aid and Rent-driven Growth: Mauritania, Kenya, and Mozambique Compared | p. 323 |
| Introduction | p. 323 |
| High-rent and low-rent political economy models | p. 327 |
| Sustained high geopolitical rent and 'Dutch disease' in Mauritania | p. 332 |
| Geopolitical rent retards Kenya's competitive industrialization | p. 337 |
| Targeting geopolitical rent on wealth creation in Mozambique | p. 339 |
| Conclusions | p. 341 |
| Index | p. 345 |
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