Foreign Aid and Industrial Development in Pakistan
Author: Irving Brecher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-11-24
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780521023368
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the history of aid flows to Pakistan.
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Assessing Aid
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Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780195211238
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAssessing 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.
Breakdown in Pakistan
Author: Masooda Bano
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012-04-25
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 0804781842
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThirty percent of foreign development aid is channeled through NGOs or community-based organizations to improve service delivery to the poor, build social capital, and establish democracy in developing nations. However, growing evidence suggests that aid often erodes, rather than promotes, cooperation within developing nations. This book presents a rare, micro level account of the complex decision-making processes that bring individuals together to form collective-action platforms. It then examines why aid often breaks down the very institutions for collective action that it aims to promote. Breakdown in Pakistan identifies concrete measures to check the erosion of cooperation in foreign aid scenarios. Pakistan is one of the largest recipients of international development aid, and therefore the empirical details presented are particularly relevant for policy. The book's argument is equally applicable to a number of other developing countries, and has important implications for recent discussions within the field of economics.
Foreign Aid and Development
Author: Finn Tarp
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2000-08-17
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 1134608489
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAid has worked in the past but can be made to work better in the future. This book offers important new research and will appeal to those working in economics, politics and development studies as well as to governmental and aid professionals.
Pakistan's Economic Performance, 1947 to 1993
Author: Sohail J. Malik
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 566
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty
Author: David Brady
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 937
ISBN-13: 0199914052
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty builds a common scholarly ground in the study of poverty by bringing together an international, inter-disciplinary group of scholars to provide their perspectives on the issue. Contributors engage in discussions about the leading theories and conceptual debates regarding poverty, the most salient topics in poverty research, and the far-reaching consequences of poverty on the individual and societal level.
Is Foreign Aid Necessary?
Author: David M. Haugen
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780737761870
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese books provide a range of opinions on a social issue; each volume focuses on a specific issue and offers a variety of perspectives, e.g., eyewitness accounts, governmental views, scientific analysis, newspaper accounts, to illuminate the issue.; This title examines numerous facets of US foreign aid, including: whether foreign aid has benefitted or harmed developing nations; whether Congress should cut foreign aid; whether aid to Africa helps poor nations or supports corrupt regimes; the level of; Greenhaven Press's At Issue series provides a wide range of opinions on individual social issues. Enhancing critical thinking skills, each At Issue volume is an excellent research tool to help readers understand current social issues and prepare reports.
United States Aid and Indian Economic Development
Author: Péter Tamás Bauer
Publisher: Washington : American Enterprise Association
Published: 1959
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPolitics and the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid
Author: Peter Boone
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCritics of foreign aid programs have long argued that poverty reflects government failure. In this paper I analyze the effectiveness of foreign aid programs to gain insights into political regimes in aid recipient countries. My analytical framework shows how three stylized political/economic regimes labeled egalitarian, elitist and laissez-faire would use foreign aid. I then test reduced form equations using data on nonmilitary aid flows to 96 countries. I find that models of elitist political regimes best predict the impact of foreign aid. Aid does not significantly increase investment and growth, nor benefit the poor as measured by improvements in human development indicators, but it does increase the size of government. I also find that the impact of aid does not vary according to whether recipient governments are liberal democratic or highly repressive. But liberal political regimes and democracies, ceteris paribus, have on average 30% lower infant mortality than the least free regimes. This may be due to greater empowerment of the poor under liberal regimes even though the political elite continues to receive the benefits of aid programs. An implication is that short term aid targeted to support new liberal regimes may be a more successful means of reducing poverty than current programs.
