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This publication provides comprehensive data on the volume, origin and types of aid and other resource flows to around 150 developing countries. The data show each country's receipts of official development assistance as well as other official and private funds from members of the Development Assistance Committee of the OECD, multilateral agencies and other key providers. Key development indicators are given for reference.
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High-quality implementation of foreign aid interventions sometimes requires employee use of contextual information that will be precluded by tight management control. Drawing from over 130 interviews and statistical analysis of a novel database of over 14,000 discrete development projects, Honig finds that top-down controls sometimes undermine development project success.
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Hauptbeschreibung This volume represents some of the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Research Committee on Development Economics (Ausschuss für Entwicklungsländer) of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik) held in Cologne, Germany, in July 2004. The meeting focused on the effectiveness of, and new approaches in, development cooperation. Both issues have become increasingly important in recent years in view of the declining volume of budget funds allocated to development cooperation. The papers discussing the effectiveness of foreign aid shed new
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The presence of expatriate humanitarian workers in African cities is not neutral. Country capitals receive large and sudden influx of expatriates during humanitarian crises responses. This book examines the influence of this presence on the local urban ecosystem, from the building of a security discourse to the self-segregation of aid agencies in expatriate enclaves. The examples of Abidjan, Bamako, Juba and Nairobi illustrate different variants of urban change induced by the normative power of aid organisations.
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La notion d'« appropriation » locale des politiques de développement a fait son chemin dans la communauté des bailleurs. Pourtant, avec les niveaux actuels de conditionnalité, cette appropriation n'a guère de chance de se conforter. De puissantes raisons militent encore pour le maintien d'une forme de conditionnalité de l'aide, même si l'on sait que la conditionnalité des politiques est plutôt inefficace et souvent contreproductive. Les bailleurs qui continueront à imposer des conditions risquent vite de se retrouver marginalisés - de nombreux pays en développement trouvant des sources alternatives de financement, publiques et privées, moins exigeantes.
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