Aid Donor Collaboration, Organizational Behavior, and Aid Flow Predictability
Aid Donor Collaboration, Organizational Behavior, and Aid Flow Predictability

Author: David Bell

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-06-23

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1498568955

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This book provides four strategic recommendations for cross-sector, cross-cultural collaborations to effectively and meaningfully address adverse societal challenges. • Monitor external factors to ensure the environment is conducive for sustainable growth of the initiative. • Employ effective leadership and competent staff who should be given early attention. A multicultural team embodies the organizational attributes and intelligence needed to account for variance in behavior within a context. • Provide sufficient funding and marshal sufficient resources to collect data required to inform learning and make thoughtful, nuanced, strategic decisions as the program progresses. • The project’s commitments must be timely and accurately accounted for. Entering collaboration makes one-on-one commitments between members subject to additional commitments that must be accounted for.

Economic Policy 55
Economic Policy 55

Author: Georges De Menil

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-04-20

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1444306847

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Top economists provide a concise and accessible evaluation of major developments in trade and trade policy. Economic Policy has earned a reputation around the world as the one publication that always identifies current and emerging policy topics early Papers are specially commissioned from first-class economists and experts in the policy field The editors are all based at top European economic institutions and each paper is discussed by a panel of distinguished economists This unique approach guarantees incisive debate and alternative interpretations of the evidence

Handbook of Aid and Development
Handbook of Aid and Development

Author: Raj M. Desai

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2024-06-05

Total Pages: 463

ISBN-13: 1800886810

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With intellectual rigour, the Handbook of Aid and Development not only critically examines the relationship between aid and development, but also discusses recent trends within the field and judiciously considers its future prospects.

Implementation and World Politics
Implementation and World Politics

Author: Alexander Betts

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2014-07-17

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0191021865

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A significant amount of International Relations scholarship examines the role of international norms in world politics. Existing work, though, focuses mainly on how these norms emerge and the process by which governments sign and ratify them. In conventional accounts, the story ends there. Yet, this tells us very little about the conditions under which these norms actually make any difference in practice. When do these norms actually change what happens on the ground? In order to address this analytical gap, the book develops an original conceptual framework for understanding the role of implementation in world politics. It applies this framework to explain variation in the impact of a range of people-centred norms relating to humanitarianism, human rights, and development. The book explores how the same international norms can have radically different effects in different national and local contexts, or within particular organizations, and in turn how this variation can have profound effects on people's lives. How do international norms change and adapt at implementation? Which actors and structures matter for shaping whether implementation actually takes place, and on whose terms? And what lessons can we derive from this for both International Relations theory and for international public policy-makers? Collectively, the chapters explore these themes by looking at three different types of norms - treaty norms, principle norms, and policy norms - across policy fields that include refugees, internal displacement, crimes against humanity, the use of mercenaries, humanitarian assistance, aid transparency, civilian protection, and the responsibility to protect.

Aid for Trade at a Glance 2009 Maintaining Momentum
Aid for Trade at a Glance 2009 Maintaining Momentum

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2009-07-15

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 926406902X

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This aid for trade monitoring report examines trends and developments presenting a comprehensive analysis of donor and partner country engagement. In addition, it addresses the regional dimension and provides fact sheets that help in assessing the outcomes and impacts.

Assessing Aid
Assessing Aid

Author:

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780195211238

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Assessing Aid determines that the effectiveness of aid is not decided by the amount received but rather the institutional and policy environment into which it is accepted. It examines how development assistance can be more effective at reducing global poverty and gives five mainrecommendations for making aid more effective: targeting financial aid to poor countries with good policies and strong economic management; providing policy-based aid to demonstrated reformers; using simpler instruments to transfer resources to countries with sound management; focusing projects oncreating and transmitting knowledge and capacity; and rethinking the internal incentives of aid agencies.

DAC Guidelines and Reference Series Harmonising Donor Practices for Effective Aid Delivery, Volume 2
DAC Guidelines and Reference Series Harmonising Donor Practices for Effective Aid Delivery, Volume 2

Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Development Assistance Committee

Publisher: OECD

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13:

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The international community is committed to helping partner countries meet the Millennium Development Goal of halving global poverty by 2015. Effective use of scarce official development assistance is one important contribution to this end. This is why the development community, under the auspices of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), is dedicated to implementing improvements in aid practices that deliver more effective and harmonised support to the efforts of partner countries. The good practices presented here have been designed to respond to this concern. They represent a set of practical steps that – if applied by development agencies – should significantly improve the effectiveness of development assistance. Following the first volume of good practices published in 2003, this second volume focuses more specifically on good practice in providing budget support (Chapter 2) and support to sector-wide approaches (Chapter 3). In doing so, it acknowledges the special relevance of public financial management issues for both of these modalities of aid delivery. This is why the last chapter of this volume (Chapter 4) is devoted to setting out good practice in providing support to capacity development for public financial management. The chapters are complemented by a substantive annex that outlines a proposed approach to supporting improved public financial management performance. In the same collection: Volume 1: Harmonising Donor Practices for Effective Aid Delivery Volume 2: Harmonising Donor Practices for Effective Aid Delivery: Budget Support, Sector Wide Approaches and Capacity Development in Public Financial Management Volume 3: Harmonising Donor Practices for Effective Aid Delivery: Strengthening Procurement Capacities in Developing Countries The first volume in this collection on Harmonising Donor Practices for Effective Aid Delivery (ISBN 9264199829) was published in May 2003 without a volume number. Its success was such that a short collection of books (of which this is Volume 2) has been created.

Harmonising Donor Practices for Effective Aid Delivery
Harmonising Donor Practices for Effective Aid Delivery

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Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13:

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Annotation Effective use of official development assistance is an important aspect of achieving the international community's commitment to helping partner countries meet the Millennium Development Goal of halving global poverty by 2015. These good practice guidelines, developed under the auspices of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), are designed to help enable development agencies to improve the effectiveness of development assistance, while maintaining the same standards of quality.

Foreign Aid and Rent-seeking
Foreign Aid and Rent-seeking

Author: Jakob Svensson

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13:

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February 1998 Why has foreign aid had so seemingly poor a macroeconomic impact in many developing countries? Is there a relationship between concessional assistance, widespread corruption, and other types of rent-seeking? To address the relationship between concessional assistance, corruption, and other types of rent-seeking activities, the author provides a simple game-theoretic rent-seeking model. Insights with interesting implications emerge from the analysis: - An increase in government revenue (from windfalls, for example, or from increased foreign aid) does not necessarily lead to the provision of more public goods and in certain circumstances may reduce it. - The mere expectation of aid may suffice to increase rent-dissipation and reduce productive public spending. But if the donor community can enter into a binding policy commitment, this result may be reversed. The author provides some preliminary empirical evidence in support of the hypothesis that windfalls and foreign aid, in countries suffering from a divided policy process, are on average associated with more extensive corruption. He finds no evidence that donors systematically allocate aid to countries with less corruption. The results accords with recent empirical findings that aid is more effective, the greater the effort to direct it to good performers. But such a regime shift may involve an aid policy that in the short run provides more assistance to countries in less need and less aid to those in most need. Enforcing such a regime shift might be difficult. This paper--a product of the Development Research Group--is part of a larger effort in the group to study the effectiveness of foreign aid.