Does foreign aid really work? - Riddell, Roger C. 1947- (Oxford University Press, 2007)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [457]-487) and index
List of figures -- - List of tables -- - List of boxes -- - Preface -- - List of abbreviations -- - 1. 'A - good thing?' -- - pt. 1 - The complex worlds of foreign aid -- - 2 - The origins and early decades of aid-giving -- - Defining aid -- - A snapshot of the history of aid -- - The origins of aid : the pre-1949 era -- - The 1950s to the 1960s -- - 3 - Aid-giving from the 1970s to the present -- - The 1970s and 1980s -- - From the 1990s to today -- - 4 - The growing web of bilateral aid donors -- - The ever-increasing number of donors -- - The explosion in the numbers of non-governmental organizations -- - The main bilateral donors -- - The smaller bilateral donors -- - 5 - The complexities of multilateral aid -- - What is multilateral aid and how much of it is there? -- - The international financial institutions -- - The United Nations, development and aid -- - Other multilateral agencies -- - Systemic issues
pt. 2 - Why is aid given? -- - 6 - The political and commercial dimensions of aid -- - Why governments give aid -- - Politics and national self-interest in aid-giving -- - Commercial interests in aid-giving -- - The overall impact of political and commercial influences on aid -- - Concluding comments -- - 7 - Public support for aid -- - Trends in public support -- - The reliability of public opinion surveys -- - Public support for aid and public perception of its effectiveness -- - 8 - Charity or duty? The moral case for aid -- - Facts on the ground -- - Ethical theories and approaches -- - 9 - The moral case for governments and individuals to provide aid -- - Donor governments : current and evolving views -- - Aid and the nature of governments' moral obligations -- - Ethics, voluntary aid-giving and the world of NGOs -- - pt. 3 - Does aid really work? -- - 10 - Assessing and measuring the impact of aid -- - Methodological challenges and data-gaps -- - Judging the impact and performance of aid : what questions need to be asked? -- - Understanding how aid contributes to growth and development -- - Expectations about the impact of aid
11 - The impact of official development aid projects -- - Project aid : an overview -- - Detailed project performance -- - Data quality and the sustainability of official aid projects -- - The wider picture -- - Summing up -- - 12 - The impact of programme aid, technical assistance and aid for capacity development -- - Programme aid -- - Technical assistance -- - Aid for capacity building -- - 13 - The impact of aid at the country and cross-country level -- - The country-level impact of aid -- - The impact of official development aid across countries -- - 14 - Assessing the impact of aid conditionality -- - Aggregate aid impact and the policy environment -- - Official donor conditionality and recipient response -- - Does policy conditionality produce the results intended? -- - Summing up -- - 15 - Does official development aid really work? A summing up -- - The search for sustainability -- - Effectiveness does matter -- - 16 - NGOs in development and the impact of discrete NGO development interventions -- - NGOs : an overview -- - Methodological challenges -- - The impact of NGO development projects and programmes -- - Cost-effectiveness, quality, innovation and replication -- - Capacity development and institutional strengthening
17 - The wider impact of non-governmental and civil society organizations -- - NGO advocacy, lobbying, awareness-raising and campaigning -- - Strengthening NGOs and strengthening civil society -- - The contribution of NGOs to development : a summing up -- - 18 - The growth of emergencies and the humanitarian response -- - Emergencies and disasters : an overview -- - The humanitarian aid response -- - 19 - The impact of emergency and humanitarian aid -- - Assessing humanitarian aid -- - The impact of humanitarian action and humanitarian aid -- - Advocacy in humanitarian action -- - Emergency and humanitarian aid : a summing up -- - pt. 4 - Towards a different future for aid -- - 20 - Why aid isn't working -- - Systematic impediments to aid effectiveness : problems caused by donors -- - Problems at the recipient end : aid dilemmas -- - Conclusion -- - 21 - Making aid work better by implementing agreed reforms -- - The discrete individual-donor approach -- - The step-change international cooperative approach -- - Taking stock -- - 22 - Making aid work better by recasting aid relationships -- - Confronting the politics of aid-giving -- - Recasting aid relationships -- - Making aid work better : addressing five key problem areas -- - Bridging the divide between ideas and implementation -- - Notes -- - References -- - Index