Author: United States. Agency for International Development. Bureau for Program and Policy Coordination. Office of Planning and BudgetingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
U.S. Overseas Loans, and Grants, and Assistance from International Organizations
Author: United States. Agency for International Development. Bureau for Program and Policy Coordination. Office of Planning and BudgetingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The Institutional Economics of Foreign Aid
Author: Bertin MartensPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139432621
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
This book is about the institutions, incentives and constraints that guide the behaviour of people and organizations involved in the implementation of foreign aid programmes. While traditional performance studies tend to focus almost exclusively on the policies and institutions in recipient countries, this book looks at incentives in the entire chain of organizations involved in the delivery of foreign aid, from donor governments and agencies to consultants, experts and other intermediaries. Four aspects of foreign aid delivery are examined in detail: incentives inside donor agencies, the interaction of subcontractors with recipient organizations, incentives inside recipient country institutions, and biases in aid performance monitoring systems.
Wanton Deviltry, Or
Author: The Enduring Struggle
Author: John NorrisPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538154676
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
"This comprehensive history of the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. government’s official bilateral foreign aid agency, deserves to be read by all students of U.S. foreign policy." Foreign Affairs US Foreign aid is one of the most misunderstand functions of our federal government. Consuming less than 1% of the federal government budget, it has nonetheless played an outsized role in political debate. At the center of this controversy and misunderstanding has been the U.S. Agency for International Development, or AID, the government agency created during the Kennedy administration to administer America’s foreign assistance programs, an often-conflicted behemoth with a presence spanning the globe. In this book, journalist and foreign policy expert John Norris provides a compelling and rich story of AID, warts and all. There have been moments of enormous triumph: the eradication of smallpox, the Green Revolution, efforts to bring family planning to millions of women for the first time. There have also been florid, headline-grabbing failures in places like Vietnam and Iraq, missteps born out of ignorance and ethnocentrism, and money that flowed into the coffers of despots like President Mobutu in Zaire. In totality, the work of AID has touched millions and millions of lives in ways that have been truly profound, both good and bad. On the Eve of AID’s 60th anniversary, Norris shares history on an almost epic scale that remains largely untold.
The Food for Peace Program
Author: United States. Food for Peace CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Food relief, American
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Aid to Africa
Author: Carol LancasterPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226468389
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Foreword by Richard C. LeoneAcknowledgements1. Introduction2. Africa--So Little Development?3. Aid and Development in Africa4. Foreign Aid: The Donors5. The United States6. France and Britain7. Sweden, Italy, Japan8. The Multilaterals9. FindingsNotesBibliographyIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
States, Markets and Foreign Aid
Author: Simone DietrichPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316519201
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Explores the different choices made by donor governments when delivering foreign aid projects around the world.
The Mutual Security Program
Author: Institutionalised Dreams
Author: Elżbieta DrążkiewiczPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1789205530
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Using examples from Poland, Elżbieta Drążkiewicz explores the question of why states become donors and individuals decide to share their wealth with others through foreign aid. She comes to the conclusion that the concept of foreign aid requires the establishment of a specific moral economy which links national ideologies and local cultures of charitable giving with broader ideas about the global political economy. It is through these processes that faith in foreign aid interventions as a solution to global issues is generated. The book also explores the relationship linking a state institution with its NGO partners, as well as international players such as the EU or OECD.
Assessing Aid
Author: Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780195211238
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
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 mainrecommendations 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 oncreating and transmitting knowledge and capacity; and rethinking the internal incentives of aid agencies.