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Smart aid for African development
- Title
- Smart aid for African development / edited by Richard Joseph, Alexandra Gillies.
- Publication
- Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009.
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- Description
- xiv, 306 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- Despite hundreds of billions of dollars spent on foreign aid to sub-Saharan Africa, a sure path to growth and development has not yet been found - and each new heralded approach has crumbled amid regrets and recriminations. The authors of "Smart Aid for African Development" provide critical assessments of the main components of foreign assistance, considering how smarter use can be made of available resources to advance growth and democracy, rebuild war-torn societies, and reduce the crippling poverty that underlies many of the continent's fierce conflicts. A critical assessment of the main components of foreign aid to sub-Saharan Africa, considering how smarter use can be made of available resources to advance growth and democracy, rebuild war-torn societies, and reduce the crippling poverty that pervades the continent.
- Subject
- Economic assistance > Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Poverty > Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Aide au développement
- Aide économique
- Evaluation de l'aide
- Corruption
- Gouvernance
- Politique d'aide au développement
- Pays en développement
- Economic assistance
- Economic policy
- Poverty
- Entwicklungshilfe
- Wirtschaftsentwicklung
- Ontwikkelingssamenwerking
- Fattigdom > Afrika
- Africa, Sub-Saharan > Economic policy
- Afrique
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Subsaharisches Afrika
- Afrika
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-281) and index.
- Contents
- Smart aid : the search for transformative strategies / Alexandra Gillies and Richard Joseph -- More aid or smarter aid? : donors, governance, and accountability / Paolo de Renzio -- How smart are aid donors? : the case of the United States / Carol Lancaster -- The Commission for Africa : assessing the approach / Vivian Lowery Derryck -- Rethinking budget support for Africa : a political economy perspective / Joel Barkan -- The search for smart debt relief : questions of when and how much / Thomas M. Callaghy -- Donor policies in practice : the challenges of poverty reduction and aid effectiveness / Ian Hopwood -- Economic reforms and development assistance in postconflict Liberia / John F.E. Ohiorhenuan -- Rethinking anticorruption efforts in Liberia / Will Reno -- Beyond the political economy of corruption : the Kenyan challenge / Peter Anyang' Nyong'o -- Voters but not yet citizens : democratization and development aid / Michael Bratton and Carolyn Logan -- Democratizing donor-civil society relations : evidence from governance programs in Nigeria / Darren Kew -- Africa after Gleneagles : overcoming misrule and stalled development / Richard Joseph -- Aid, transformation, and growth in Africa / Richard Joseph and Alexandra Gillies.
- ISBN
- 9781588266064
- 1588266060
- 9781588266323
- 158826632X
- LCCN
- 2008021831
- OCLC
- ocn216662987
- 216662987
- SCSB-14367166
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library