Making aid work
By: by Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee.
Series: A Boston review book
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9780262026154
Subjects: Economic assistance -- Developing countries; Poor -- Developing countries
Table of contents: title: Making aid work / Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee; title: "We must tackle development problems at the level of the economy as a whole" / Ian Goldin, F. Halsey, Rogers, and Nicholas Stern; title: "The new private philanthropies could challenge the existing aid business" / Mick Moore; title: "There is a huge gap between the expert consensus and the political push for more aid" / Ian Vásquez; title: "Evidence-based aid must not become the latest in a long string of development fads" / Angus Deaton; title: "Another big problem must be taken into account: the lack of skilled jobs" / Alice H. Amsden; title: "Banerjee's approach might teach us more about impact but at the expense of larger matters" / Robert H. Bates; title: "Development aid will never succeed without the support and ownership of its recipients" / Carlos Barbery; title: "Technical rigor must not take precedence over other kinds of valuable lessons" / Howard White; title: "If it is hard to think of aid being spent productively in Africa, why not spend elsewhere for Africa? / Jagdish Bhagwati; title: "The global poverty challenge is social and political as well as technological" / Raymond C. Offenheiser and Didier Jacobs; title: "The aversion to recognizing unfavorable results is woven into the fabric of most bureaucracies" / Ruth Levine; title: Abhijit vinayak Banerjee responds: "The best argument for the experimental approach is that it spurs innovation"; title: About the contributors.