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ISBN10: 0199278857, ISBN13: 9780199278855, [publisher: OUP Oxford] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - What's wrong with foreign aid Many policymakers, aid practitioners, and scholars have called into question its ability to increase economic growth, alleviate poverty, or promote social development. At the macro level, only tenuous links between development aid and improved living conditionshave been found. At the micro level, only a few programs outlast donor support and even fewer appear to achieve lasting improvements. The authors of this book argue that much of aid's failure is related to the institutions that structure its delivery. These institutions govern the complexrelationships between the main actors in the aid delivery system and often generate a series of perverse incentives that promote inefficient and unsustainable outcomes. In their analysis, the authors apply the theoretical insights of the new institutional economics to several settings. First, theyinvestigate the institutions of Sida, the Swedish aid agency, to analyze how that aid agency's institutions can produce incentives inimical to desired outcomes, contrary to the desires of its own staff. Second, the authors use cases from India, a country with low aid dependence, and Zambia, acountry with high aid dependence, to explore how institutions on the ground in recipient countries also mediate the effectiveness of aid. Throughout the book, the ...
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Oxford University Press, Date: 2005-11-03. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2005. Oxford University Press ISBN 0199278857 9780199278855 [US]