Foreign Aid for Development : Issues, Challenges, and the New Agenda

An edited collection on foreign aid that addresses important aid questions, and reviews the shifting aid landscape in light of the recent global financial crisis. The volume reviews the progress achieved so far, identifies the challenges ahead, and discusses the emerging policy agenda in foreign aid.

George Mavrotas is the Chief Economist of the Global Development Network (GDN), formerly a Fellow and Project Director at UNU-WIDER and, prior to that, in the Economics Faculties of the Universities of Oxford and Manchester. He is also a Visiting Professor at CERDI, University of Auvergne in Clermont-Ferrand, France. He is the author and co-author of more than 100 publications, including papers in leading peer-reviewed journals, chapters in edited volumes and books on a broad range of development issues. His publcations include Commodity Supply Management by Producing Countries (OUP); Advancing Development: Core Themes in Global Economics (Palgrave Macmillan) and Development Aid: A Fresh Look (Palgrave Macmillan). He holds a PhD in Economics (DPhil) from Oxford.