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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910821906003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Elsevier, , [2016]; ©2016
• ISBN: 0-12-803671-0
• Edizione: [1st edition]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (274 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.9/1
• Soggetti: Economic assistance - Evaluation; U-länder; Developing countries
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ReferencesChapter 5 - The rhetoric and reality of results and impact assessment in donor agencies: A practitioners' perspective1; Introduction; The changing aid environment; The pursuit of success; Understanding the "results culture"; The accountability and transparency agenda; The learning and efficacy agenda; A fly in the ointment?; The push for impact assessment; The changing face of impact assessment; Results reporting and impact assessment in a contested, dynamic, and political environment; Program design; Programme delivery and management; Reporting, accountability, and (impact) evaluationLesson learning and application; An evolving context?; Looking forward; The implications for aid investments and the framing of results; The implications for impact assessment; Conclusion; References; Chapter 6 - Beyond aid distribution: Aid effectiveness, neoliberal and neostructural reforms in Pacific Island Countries; Introduction; Overview of development aid; Economic reforms in pics: key issues; The limitations of economic reforms; Case study 1: Sovi basin conservation area in Fiji; Case study 2: ongoing ADB reform "promoting economic use of customary land" in Samoa
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. Addresses the impact of aid for trade and value for money, rather than its implementation Discusses 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 Assesses the effects and implications of the value for money and aid for trade agendas Highlights economic issues