Does Foreign Aid Really Work? by Riddell, Roger C. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

LIST OF FIGURES LIST OF TABLES LIST OF BOXES PREFACE PREFACE FOR THE PAPERBACK EDITION LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 1. ‘A good thing?’ The aid revival A different book on aid Outline of the book PART I: 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 PART II: 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, NGOs 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 PART III: 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 PART IV: 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

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