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Dutta, Nabamita.

Lessons on foreign aid and economic developmentmicro and macro perspectives /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Lessons on foreign aid and economic developmentedited by Nabamita Dutta, Claudia R. Williamson.
Reminder of title:	micro and macro perspectives /
other author:	Dutta, Nabamita.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2019.
Description:	xviii, 297 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Economic assistance.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22121-8
ISBN:	9783030221218$q(electronic bk.)

Lessons on foreign aid and economic developmentmicro and macro perspectives /
Lessons on foreign aid and economic developmentmicro and macro perspectives /[electronic resource] :edited by Nabamita Dutta, Claudia R. Williamson. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2019. - xviii, 297 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

1. Introduction -- 2. Foreign Aid Conditionality and Economic Growth -- 3. Types of Aid -- 4. An Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Equity Approach to Examining Subnational Health -- 5. Evaluating Aid Agencies: Challenges, Comparisons, and Causes of Best Aid Practices -- 6. What Influences World Bank Project Evaluations? -- 7. Aid Allocation and Outcomes: What Role Do Political Motives Play? -- 8. Foreign Aid and Recipient State Capacity -- 9. Foreign Aid and Repression -- 10. Can Foreign Aid Promote Political and Economic Freedom? -- 11. Potential Pitfalls in Private Aid: A Cautionary Note for Non-Governmental Assistance -- 12. Remittances and FDI as Privately Provided International Aid -- 13. The Role of Entrepreneurs in Facilitating Remittances in Cuba.

A response to the pressing need to address and clarify the substantial ambiguity within current literature, this edited volume aims to deepen readers' understanding of the impact of foreign aid on development outcomes based on the latest findings in research over the past decade. Foreign aid has long been seen as one of two extremes: either beneficial or damaging, a blessing or a curse. Consequently, many readers perceive aid's effectiveness based on the work of scholars who are assessing the impact of aid from one of two antithetical perspectives. This book takes a different approach, shedding light on recent research that can deepen our understanding of the complex relationship between aid and its aftereffects. Drawing from an extensive set of studies that have explored micro and macro impacts of foreign aid for recipient nations, chapter authors highlight more layered and nuanced findings, with a focus on donor characteristics, political motives, and an evaluation of aid projects and their effectiveness, including the differential impact based on type of aid. This volume is the first of its kind to unpack aid as a complex rather than a unitary concept and explore the wide areas of grey that have long enshrouded foreign aid.

ISBN: 9783030221218$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-22121-8doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

187398
Economic assistance.

LC Class. No.: HC60 / .L47 2019

Dewey Class. No.: 338.91

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