Programme aid and development : beyond conditionality
- Responsibility
- Howard N. White and A. Geske Dijkstra.
- Digital
- data file.
- Imprint
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
- Physical description
- 1 online resource (xxvi, 565 pages) : illustrations.
- Series
- Routledge studies in development economics ; 29.
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Description
Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- White, Howard, 1960-
- Contributor
- Dijkstra, A. Geske.
Contents/Summary
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- pt. I. Introduction and methodology
- 1. Programme aid and the international financial institutions
- 2. The evaluation of programme aid: a methodological framework
- pt. II. Case studies
- 3. Development by default: programme aid to Bangladesh / Howard N. White, A. Geske Dijkstra and Jan Kees Van Donge
- 4. Supporting success: economic growth in Cape Verde in the early 1990s
- 5. Politics and partnership in Ghana in the 1980s, with reference to co-financing as a bilateral aid instrument / Howard N. White, A. Geske Dijkstra and Nii Sowa
- 6. From rehabilitation to recovery: Mozambique in the 1990s
- 7. Aid, debt and dependence: programme aid in Nicaragua.
- Summary
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This important contribution to the literature on development economics analyses the effectiveness of programme aid - i.e. aid that is not given in the form of projects. Using real world examples from countries such as Nicaragua, Tanzania, and Vietnam this book deals with one of the core issues in development economics today.
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Subjects
- Subject
- Economic assistance > Developing countries > Case studies.
- Economic assistance > Developing countries > Evaluation.
- Developing countries > Economic policy.
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Business Development.
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Economic Development.
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > General.
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Government & Business.
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Structural Adjustment.
- POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Economic Policy.
- Economic assistance.
- Economic assistance > Evaluation.
- Economic policy.
- Developing countries.
- Economische ontwikkeling.
- Wirtschaftsentwicklung.
- Entwicklungshilfe.
Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 2003
- Series
- Routledge studies in development economics ; 29
- ISBN
- 9781134697069 (electronic bk.)
- 1134697066 (electronic bk.)
- 9780203770122
- 0203770129
- 0415259886
- 9780415259880
