Provided for over 60 years, and expanding more rapidly today than it has for a generation, foreign aid is now a $100bn business. But does it work? Indeed, is it needed at all? In this first-ever, overall assessment of aid, Roger Riddell provides a rigorous but highly readable account of aid, warts and all.
Provided for over 60 years, and expanding more rapidly today than it has for a generation, foreign aid is now a $100bn business. But does it work? Indeed, is it needed at all? In this first-ever, overall assessment of aid, Roger Riddell provides a rigorous but highly readable account of aid, warts and all.
Roger Riddell is a Non-Executive Director of Oxford Policy Management and a Principle of The Policy Practice. He was Chair of the first Presidential Economic Commission of Independent Zimbabwe in 1980, and Chief Economist of the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries from 1981-83. From 1984 to 1998, he was a senior Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute, London and for five years to 2004 was International Director of Christian Aid.
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* 1: 'A Good Thing?' * Part I: The Complex Worlds of Foreign Aid * 2: The origins and early decades of aid-giving * 3: Aid-giving from the 1970s to the present * 4: The growing web of bilateral aid donors * 5: The complexities of multilateral aid * Part II: Why is Aid Given? * 6: The political and commercial dimensions of aid * 7: Public support for aid * 8: Charity or duty? The moral case for aid * 9: The moral case for governments and individuals to provide aid * Part III: Does Aid Really Work? * 10: Assessing and measuring the impact of aid * 11: The impact of official development aid projects * 12: The impact of programme aid, technical assistance and aid for capacity development * 13: The impact of aid at the country and cross-country level * 14: Assesing the impact of aid conditionality * 15: Does official development aid really work? A summing up * 16: NGOs in development and the impact of discrete NGO development interventions * 17: The wider impact of non-governmental and civil society organizations * 18: The growth of emergencies and the humanitarian response * 19: The impact of emergency and humanitarian aid * Part IV: Towards a Different Future for Aid * 20: Why aid isn't working * 21: Making aid work better by implementing agreed reforms * 22: Making aid work better by recasting aid relationships
* 1: 'A Good Thing?' * Part I: The Complex Worlds of Foreign Aid * 2: The origins and early decades of aid-giving * 3: Aid-giving from the 1970s to the present * 4: The growing web of bilateral aid donors * 5: The complexities of multilateral aid * Part II: Why is Aid Given? * 6: The political and commercial dimensions of aid * 7: Public support for aid * 8: Charity or duty? The moral case for aid * 9: The moral case for governments and individuals to provide aid * Part III: Does Aid Really Work? * 10: Assessing and measuring the impact of aid * 11: The impact of official development aid projects * 12: The impact of programme aid, technical assistance and aid for capacity development * 13: The impact of aid at the country and cross-country level * 14: Assesing the impact of aid conditionality * 15: Does official development aid really work? A summing up * 16: NGOs in development and the impact of discrete NGO development interventions * 17: The wider impact of non-governmental and civil society organizations * 18: The growth of emergencies and the humanitarian response * 19: The impact of emergency and humanitarian aid * Part IV: Towards a Different Future for Aid * 20: Why aid isn't working * 21: Making aid work better by implementing agreed reforms * 22: Making aid work better by recasting aid relationships
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