Assessing aid / What works, what doesn't and why WHAT WORKS, WHAT DOESN'T, AND WHY

By:

World Bank

Material type: Text

TextSeries: POLICY RESEARCH SERIES | WORLD BANK POLICY RESEARCH REPORTPublication details: UK Oxford UP 1999Description: 160p., 230 x 180mm, Illustrations, hardbackISBN:

0195211235

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	Thurles Library Main Collection	338.9 WOR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		30026000005610

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Assessing Aid determines that the effectiveness of aid is not decided by the amount received but rather the institutional and policy environment into which it is accepted. It examines how development assistance can be more effective at reducing global poverty and gives five main recommendations for making aid more effective: targeting financial aid to poor countries with good policies and strong economic management; providing policy-based aid to demonstrated reformers; using simpler instruments to transfer resources to countries with sound management; focusing projects on creating and transmitting knowledge and capacity; and rethinking the internal incentives of aid agencies.

This text argues that the effectiveness of aid is not the amount received but rather the institutional and policy environment into which it is accepted. It examines how development assistance can be more effective at reducing global poverty and offers recommendations for making aid more effective.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

The World Bank Group is a group of five international organizations responsible for providing finance and advice to countries for the purposes of economic development and poverty reduction, and for encouraging and safeguarding international investment. The group and its affiliates have their headquarters in Washington, D.C., with local offices in 124 member countries.