Does foreign aid really work?

In this first-ever attempt to provide an overall assessment of aid, Roger Riddell presents a rigorous but highly readable account of aid, warts and all. oes Foreign Aid Really Work? sets out the evidence and exposes the instances where aid has failed and explains why. The book also examines the way...

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Huvudupphovsman: Riddell, Roger C.
Övriga upphovsmän: Roger C. Riddell
Språk:Undetermined
English
Publicerad: Oxford Oxford University Press 2007
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Sammanfattning:In this first-ever attempt to provide an overall assessment of aid, Roger Riddell presents a rigorous but highly readable account of aid, warts and all. oes Foreign Aid Really Work? sets out the evidence and exposes the instances where aid has failed and explains why. The book also examines the way that politics distorts aid, and disentangles the moral and ethical assumptions that lie behind the belief that aid does good. The book concludes by detailing the practical ways that aid needs to change if it is to be the effective force for good that its providers claim it is
Fysisk beskrivning:xxvi, 505 p.
ill.
25 cm
ISBN:0199544468
9780199544462