Reinventing foreign aid / edited by William Easterly ; forward by Nancy Birdsall ; sponsored by the Center for Global Development.

Other author Easterly, William, 1957-
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.
Descriptionx, 567 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

Contents Making aid work / Abhijit Banerjee and Ruimin He -- Use of randomization in the evaluation of development effectiveness / Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer -- It pays to be ignorant : a simple political economy of rigorous program evaluation / Lant Pritchett -- Solutions when the solution is the problem : arraying the disarray in development / Lant Pritchett and Michael Woolcock -- Donors and service delivery / Ritva Reinikka -- The illusion of sustainability / Michael Kremer and Edward Miguel -- An aid-institutions paradox? : a review essay on aid dependency and state building in Sub-Saharan Africa / Todd Moss, Gunilla Pettersson, and Nicolas van de Walle -- Why do aid agencies exist? / Bertin Martens -- Absorption capacity and disbursement constraints / Jakob Svensson -- Donor fragmentation / Stephen Knack and Aminur Rahman -- The IMF and economic development / James Raymond Vreeland -- The knowledge bank / Jonathan Morduch -- Debt relief and fiscal sustainability for heavily indebted poor countries / Craig Burnside and Domenico Fanizza -- Making vaccines pay / Michael Kremer -- Can we build a better mousetrap? Three new insitutions designed to improve aid effectiveness / Steven Radelet and Ruth Levine -- Competing with central planning : marketplaces for international aid / Dennis Whittle and Mari Kuraishi -- Placing enterprise and business thinking at the heart of the war on poverty / Kurt Hoffman -- Avoid hubris: and other lessons for reformers / John McMillan -- Seven deadly sins: reflections on donor fallings / Nancy Birdsall.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2007013993
ISBN9780262550666 (pbk.)
ISBN0262550660 (pbk.)
ISBN9780262050906
ISBN0262050900

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Joyner General Stacks HC 60 .R353 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold