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Aid effectiveness in the health sector
Martínez Álvarez, Melisa; Acharya, Arnab K. - 2012
shape the landscape of development co-operation. -- aid effectiveness ; health ; fungibility ; harmonization … health sector. It summarizes the history of aid and outlines the methodological challenges encountered when assessing its …. The review finds that resource allocation, lack of predictability of funds, fragmentation, fungibility and the system of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009581435
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Global Governance and Human Development: Promoting Democratic Accountability and Institutional Experimentation
Jayadev, Arjun - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010
This paper seeks to critically examine recent debates on global governance, albeit from a human development perspective. In doing so it identifies and describes two important principles for building institutions for the advancing of human development: what may be termed the imperative of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008504426
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Putting Paris into practice : foreign aid, national ownership, and donor alignment in Mali and Ghana
Brown, Stephen - 2016
This paper examines the application of the first two principles of the 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, namely ownership and alignment, to the cases of Mali and Ghana. It argues that Western donors and recipient governments have adopted the Paris Principles mainly in form, rather...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573201
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Donors' support for microcredit as social enterprise: A critical reappraisal
Nissanke, Machiko - 2002
The donor community has enthusiastically embraced the concept of microfinance as a promising mechanism to attain the objectives of poverty alleviation and microenterprise development. Amid the high expectation, a myth has been inadvertently created that they could be the ultimate solution to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279321
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Aid Effectiveness in the Health Sector
Acharya, Arnab; Alvarez, Melisa Mart.nez - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012
health sector. It summarizes the history of aid and outlines the methodological challenges encountered when assessing its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010570500
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Donor coordination for effective government policies? Implementation of the new aid effectiveness agenda in health and education in Zambia
Leiderer, Stefan - 2013
growth and poverty reduction, but also on intermediate outcomes such as health and education. This paper reviews evidence … from recent in-depth country work on the impact of government policies and service provision in health and basic education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319914
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Assessing the contribution of donor agencies to aid effectiveness: The impact of World Bank preparation on project outcomes
Kilby, Christopher - Economics Department, School of Business - 2012
subject to the usual fungibility critique. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011093706
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From aid to global development policy
Alonso, José Antonio - Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations - 2012
The international community has advanced in reforming the international aid system. Such reform comes at a time when there is a renewed skepticism about aid effectiveness and when the crisis sheds new doubts about the sustainability of donors´ commitments. At the same time, the international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010852175
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Aid targeting to fragile and conflict-affected states and implications for aid effectiveness
Carment, David; Samy, Yiagdeesen - 2019
While significant amounts of foreign aid have been allocated to the group of so-called fragile and conflict-affected states in recent years, it is not clear whether that aid is targeted to where it is most needed. This paper extends recent work by Carment and Samy, and focuses on aid targeting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146495
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Putting Paris into practice: Foreign aid, national ownership, and donor alignment in Mali and Ghana
Brown, Stephen - 2016
This paper examines the application of the first two principles of the 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, namely ownership and alignment, to the cases of Mali and Ghana. It argues that Western donors and recipient governments have adopted the Paris Principles mainly in form, rather...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653957