Does foreign aid really work?

Abstract

1. A Good Thing? PART I: THE COMPLEX WORLDS OF FOREIGN AID 2. The Origins and Early Decades of Aid-Giving 3. Aid-giving from the 1970s to the Present 4. The Growing Web of Bilateral Aid Donors 5. The Complexities of Multilateral Aid PART II: WHY IS AID GIVEN? 6. The Political and Commercial Dimensions of Aid 7. Public Support for Aid 8. Charity or Duty? The Moral Case for Aid 9. The Moral Case for Governments and Individuals to Provide Aid PART III: DOES AID REALLY WORK? 10. Assessing and Measuring the Impact of Aid 11. The Impact of Official Development Aid Projects 12. The Impact of Programme Aid, Technical Assistance and Aid for Capacity Development 13. The Impact of Aid at the Country and Cross-Country Level 14. Assesing the Impact of Aid Conditionality 15. Does Official Development Aid Really Work? A Summing Up 16. NGOs in Development and the Impact of Discrete NGO Development Interventions 17. The Wider Impact of Non-governmental and Civil Society Organizations 18. The Growth of Emergencies and the Humanitarian Response 19. The Impact of Emergency and Humanitarian Aid PART IV: TOWARDS A DIFFERENT FUTURE FOR AID 20. Why Aid Isn't Working 21. Making Aid Work Better by Implementing Agreed Reforms 22. Making Aid Work Better by Recasting Aid Relationships