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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 …

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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...

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Development assistance and climate finance

Arndt, Channing - 2015

The distinction between development assistance and climate finance is driven by an optic of compensation largely derived from the 'polluter pays' principle. For practical as well as conceptual reasons, this principle provides a weak basis for climate finance. The distinction also cuts against...

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Rethinking the world of aid in the twenty first century

Heller, Peter S. - 2011

Many concerns can be raised about the effectiveness of current aid programmes to developing countries. The appropriateness of aid is particularly questionable when one considers the likely character of the challenges that the global economy will confront in 2025, as suggested by alternative...

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Foreign assistance in a climate-constrained world

Arndt, Channing; Bach, Christian Friis - 2011

The emergence of climate finance has the potential to catalyze positive changes in the institutional architecture and distribution mechanisms for financial flows to lower income countries. The nature of the challenge of development in the context of climate change argues for recipient country...

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The World Bank's health projects in Timor-Leste : the political economy of effective aid

Rosser, Andrew; Bremner, Sharna - 2013

The World Bank's health sector projects in Timor-Leste - the Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project and … the Second Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project - have been among the few successful operations it has … resistance to the World Bank's health policy agenda compared to its policy agenda in other sectors. In terms of wider lessons, we …

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South Sudan : the road from the Paris Declaration to the reality of Juba, 2005 - 11

Larson, Greg - 2013

During Sudan's "interim period" from the end of civil war in January 2005 until South Sudan's independence in July 2011, foreign development agencies provided extensive support and billions of dollars in aid - for which institutional development and capacity building of the nascent Government of...

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Delivering good aid in hard places : the Yemen Social Fund for Development approach

Al-Iryani, Lamis; De Janvry, Alain; Sadoulet, Elisabeth - 2013

The Yemen Social Fund for Development (SFD) was established in 1997 with the support of the international community, and in particular the World Bank, to combat national poverty and reinforce the limited existing social safety net. Since its inception, SFD has been widely viewed as successful in...

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What does the evidence tell us about "thinking and working politically" in development assistance?

Dasandi, Niheer; Laws, Edward; Marquette, Heather; … - 2019

This paper critically reviews evidence on "thinking and working politically" in development. Scholars and practitioners have increasingly recognised that development is fundamentally political, and efforts are underway to develop more politically informed ways of thinking and working. The...

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Too many cooks in the kitchen? : the division of financing in World Bank projects and project performance

Winters, Matthew S. - 2019

The total funding envelope for World Bank projects is often divided among various state and non-state actors, each of which can have competing ideas about or interests in the project. How does the division of financing relate to overall project effectiveness? I argue that too many funding...

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