Assessing the impact of foreign aid : value for money and aid for trade /

Assessing the Impact of Foreign Aid: Value for Money and Aid for Trade provides updated information on how to improve foreign aid programs, exploring the concept and practice of impact assessment within the sometimes-unproblematic approaches advocated in current literature of value for money and aid...

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Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Jakupec, Viktor, 1945- (Editor), Kelly, Max (International development researcher) (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Academic Press, 2015.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Assessing the Impact of Foreign Aid: Value for Money and Aid for Trade provides updated information on how to improve foreign aid programs, exploring the concept and practice of impact assessment within the sometimes-unproblematic approaches advocated in current literature of value for money and aid for trade. Contributors from multi-lateral agencies and NGOs discuss the changing patterns of Official Development Assistance and their effects on impact assessment, providing theoretical, political, structural, methodological, and practical frameworks, discussions, and a theory-practice nexus. With twin foci of economics and policy this book raises the potential for making sophisticated and coherent decisions on aid allocation to developing countries.
Item Description:Includes index.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:ReferencesChapter 5-The rhetoric and reality of results and impact assessment in donor agencies: A practitioners' perspective1; Introduction; The changing aid environment; The pursuit of success; Understanding the "results culture"; The accountability and transparency agenda; The learning and efficacy agenda; A fly in the ointment?; The push for impact assessment; The changing face of impact assessment; Results reporting and impact assessment in a contested, dynamic, and political environment; Program design; Programme delivery and management
ISBN:9780128036716
0128036710