03236nam 2200457 a 450 991081599770332120230721032409.00-262-27212-11-4356-4877-3(CKB)1000000000488752(EBL)3338876(OCoLC)939263735(Au-PeEL)EBL3338876(CaPaEBR)ebr10229590(MiAaPQ)EBC3338876(EXLCZ)99100000000048875220070404d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||Reinventing foreign aid[electronic resource] /edited by William Easterly ; forward by Nancy Birdsall ; sponsored by the Center for Global DevelopmentCambridge, Mass. MIT Pressc20081 online resource (580 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-262-55066-0 0-262-05090-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Making aid work / Abhijit Banerjee and Ruimin He -- Use of randomization in the evaluation of development effectiveness / Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer -- It pays to be ignorant : a simple political economy of rigorous program evaluation / Lant Pritchett -- Solutions when the solution is the problem : arraying the disarray in development / Lant Pritchett and Michael Woolcock -- Donors and service delivery / Ritva Reinikka -- The illusion of sustainability / Michael Kremer and Edward Miguel -- An aid-institutions paradox? : a review essay on aid dependency and state building in Sub-Saharan Africa / Todd Moss, Gunilla Pettersson, and Nicolas van de Walle -- Why do aid agencies exist? / Bertin Martens -- Absorption capacity and disbursement constraints / Jakob Svensson -- Donor fragmentation / Stephen Knack and Aminur Rahman -- The IMF and economic development / James Raymond Vreeland -- The knowledge bank / Jonathan Morduch -- Debt relief and fiscal sustainability for heavily indebted poor countries / Craig Burnside and Domenico Fanizza -- Making vaccines pay / Michael Kremer -- Can we build a better mousetrap? Three new insitutions designed to improve aid effectiveness / Steven Radelet and Ruth Levine -- Competing with central planning : marketplaces for international aid / Dennis Whittle and Mari Kuraishi -- Placing enterprise and business thinking at the heart of the war on poverty / Kurt Hoffman -- Avoid hubris: and other lessons for reformers / John McMillan -- Seven deadly sins: reflections on donor fallings / Nancy Birdsall.Top experts in the field discuss how to improve the effectiveness of foreign aid, proposing practical solutions to specific problems rather than a utopian master plan.Economic assistanceDeveloping countriesEvaluationEconomic development projectsDeveloping countriesEvaluationEconomic assistanceEvaluation.Economic development projectsEvaluation.338.9109172/4Easterly William1957-123572MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815997703321Reinventing foreign aid3932535UNINA