Does Foreign Aid Really Work?

Roger C. Riddell

ISBN 10: 0199544468 / ISBN 13: 9780199544462

Published by Oxford University Press, 2008

About this Item

2008. 1st Edition. Paperback. Provided for over 60 years, and expanding more rapidly today than it has for a generation, foreign aid is now a $100bn business. But does it work? Indeed, is it needed at all? In this first-ever, overall assessment of aid, Roger Riddell provides a rigorous but highly readable account of aid, warts and all. Num Pages: 536 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: GTF; JKSR; JPS; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 808. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Does Foreign Aid Really Work?
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199544468
• ISBN 13: 9780199544462
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Foreign aid is now a $100bn business and is expanding more rapidly today than it has for a generation. But does it work? Indeed, is it needed at all?

Other attempts to answer these important questions have been dominated by a focus on the impact of official aid provided by governments. But today possibly as much as 30 percent of aid is provided by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and over 10 percent is provided as emergency assistance.

In this first-ever attempt to provide an overall assessment of aid, Roger Riddell presents a rigorous but highly readable account of aid, warts and all. oes Foreign Aid Really Work? sets out the evidence and exposes the instances where aid has failed and explains why. The book also examines the way that politics distorts aid, and disentangles the moral and ethical assumptions that lie behind the belief that aid does good. The book concludes by detailing the practical ways that aid needs to change if it is to be the effective force for good that its providers claim it is.

About the Author

Roger Riddell is a Non-Executive Director of Oxford Policy Management and a Principle of The Policy Practice. He was Chair of the first Presidential Economic Commission of Independent Zimbabwe in 1980, and Chief Economist of the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries from 1981-83. From 1984 to 1998, he was a senior Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute, London and for five years to 2004 was International Director of Christian Aid.