Making aid work

XV, 170 S.

18cm

Making aid work / Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee -- "We must tackle development problems at the level of the economy as a whole" / Ian Goldin, F. Halsey, Rogers, and Nicholas Stern -- "The new private philanthropies could challenge the existing aid business" / Mick Moore -- "There is a huge gap between the expert consensus and the political push for more aid" / Ian Vásquez -- "Evidence-based aid must not become the latest in a long string of development fads" / Angus Deaton -- "Another big problem must be taken into account: the lack of skilled jobs" / Alice H. Amsden -- "Banerjee's approach might teach us more about impact but at the expense of larger matters" / Robert H. Bates -- "Development aid will never succeed without the support and ownership of its recipients" / Carlos Barbery -- "Technical rigor must not take precedence over other kinds of valuable lessons" / Howard White -- "If it is hard to think of aid being spent productively in Africa, why not spend elsewhere for Africa? / Jagdish Bhagwati -- "The global poverty challenge is social and political as well as technological" / Raymond C. Offenheiser and Didier Jacobs -- "The aversion to recognizing unfavorable results is woven into the fabric of most bureaucracies" / Ruth Levine -- Abhijit vinayak Banerjee responds: "The best argument for the experimental approach is that it spurs innovation" -- About the contributors

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