Reinventing foreign aid
By: edited by William Easterly ; forward by Nancy Birdsall.
Contributors: Easterly, William Russell.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780262050906; 9780262550666
Subjects: Economic assistance -- Developing countries -- Evaluation; Economic development projects -- Developing countries -- Evaluation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Making aid work / Abhijit Banerjee and Ruimin He; title: Use of randomization in the evaluation of development effectiveness / Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer; title: It pays to be ignorant : a simple political economy of rigorous program evaluation / Lant Pritchett; title: Solutions when the solution is the problem : arraying the disarray in development / Lant Pritchett and Michael Woolcock; title: Donors and service delivery / Ritva Reinikka; title: The illusion of sustainability / Michael Kremer and Edward Miguel; title: An aid-institutions paradox? : a review essay on aid dependency and state building in Sub-Saharan Africa / Todd Moss, Gunilla Pettersson, and Nicolas van de Walle; title: Why do aid agencies exist? / Bertin Martens; title: Why do aid donors and recipients act the way they do? / Jakob Svensson; title: Donor fragmentation and bureaucratic quality in aid recipients : the IMF and World Bank / Stephen Knack and Aminur Rahman; title: The IMF and economic development / James Vreeland; title: The knowledge bank / Jonathan Morduch; title: Debt relief and fiscal sustainability for HIPCs : imagining new forms of foreign aid / Craig Burnside and Domenico Fanizza; title: Making vaccines pay / Michael Kremer (Harvard); title: Improving aid effectiveness through institutional design : three new mechanisms / Steven Radelet and Ruth Levine; title: Competing with central planning : marketplaces for international aid / Dennis Whittle and Mari Kuraishi; title: Placing enterprise and business thinking at the heart of the war on poverty / Kurt Hoffman.