The Market for Aid : Understanding Aid by Looking Forward and Looking Back

• Tác giả: Tim Harford
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 028.8 Use of books and other information media as sources of recreation and self-development
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 303134
• Chủ đề: 1. AID; 2. AID AGENCIES; 3. AID FLOWS; 4. AIR; 5. BENEFICIAL EFFECTS

Tóm tắt

The market for aid is changing. These days donors use a far greater array of instruments than in the past, and operate in a context of far larger private financial flows. Poor countries are growing richer, but there are legitimate doubts about whether the aid industry deserves credit. Measurement of the effectiveness of aid has not yet produced some of the results that would really help, such as credible ratings of aid agencies or rigorous randomized trials of specific programs. This information might pull the aid debate away from minimizing the costs of aid competition and toward trying to maximize the benefits: widespread experimentation and innovation.