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Title

Assessing the impact of foreign aid : value for money and aid for trade / edited by Viktor Jakupec, Max Kelly.

Publication

• Amsterdam : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, [2016]
• ©2016

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Additional Authors

• Jakupec, Viktor, 1945-
• Kelly, Max (Political scientist),

Description

xxiv, 248 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Assessing the Impact of Foreign Aid: Value for Money and Aid for Trade provides updated information on how to improve foreign aid programs, exploring the concept and practice of impact assessment within the sometimes-unproblematic approaches advocated in current literature of value for money and aid for trade. Contributors from multi-lateral agencies and NGOs discuss the changing patterns of Official Development Assistance and their effects on impact assessment, providing theoretical, political, structural, methodological, and practical frameworks, discussions, and a theory-practice nexus. With twin foci of economics and policy this book raises the potential for making sophisticated and coherent decisions on aid allocation to developing countries.

Subject

• Developing countries
• Economic assistance
• Economic assistance > Developing countries
• Ekonomisk hjälp
• U-länder

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Official development assistance and impact assessment: theoretical and practical frameworks / Viktor Jakupec and Max Kelly -- Conceptualizing impact assessment in foreign aid / Max Kelly -- Competing development paradigms and alternative evaluations of aid effectiveness: challenging the dominant neoliberal vision / John McKay -- Aid for trade: a critical analysis / Viktor Jakupec -- The rhetoric and reality of results and impact assessment in donor agencies: a practitioners' perspective / Simon Milligan, Steve Bertram, and Alwyn Chilver -- Beyond aid distribution: aid effectiveness, neoliberal and neostructural reforms in Pacific Island countries / Amerita Ravuvu and Alec Thornton -- Regulatory impact assessment: the forgotten agenda in ODA / Viktor Jakupec and Max Kelly -- Can we assess the overall impact of development agencies? The example of corporate results frameworks in multilateral development banks / Marc M. Cohen -- Assessing the impact of knowledge on development partners / William Loxley -- From evidence to action: stakeholder coordination as a determinant of evaluation use / Mateusz Pucilowski -- Inside the black box: modeling the inner workings of social development programs / Sebastian Lemire and Gordon Freer -- Impact assessment and official development assistance: ethnographic research of the World Bank's community-based rural development projects in Ghana / Kwadwo Adusei-Asante and Peter Hancock -- Finding balance: improving monitoring to improve impact assessments of development programmes / Donna Loveridge -- Impact assessment in practice: case studies from Save the Children programs in Lao PDR and Afghanistan / Veronica Bell and Yasamin Alttahir -- The nongovernmental development sector and impact assessment / Jonathan J. Makuwira -- Impact assessment: from theory to practice / Viktor Jakupec and Max Kelly.

ISBN

• 9780128036600 (pbk.)
• 0128036605 (pbk.)
• 9780128036716 (PDF ebook) (canceled/invalid)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library