International Aid: The Flow of Public Resources from Rich to Poor Countries

by J. M. Clifford

Overview

This is a comprehensive analysis of the economics of international aid that provides a systematic framework for understanding, planning, and executing aid programs. Though much has been written on different aspects of international aid, this book was the first to synthesize information on all facets of aid and to investigate the consequences, for both donor and recipient nations, of the transfer of public resources in aid programs. The authors first present the history of aid, discuss the principles that govern aid as practiced by the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, China, the United Nations, and other donors, and then provide a broad theoretical structure in which to discuss particular questions taken up in subsequent chapters. The book systematically covers all aspects of the aid relationship, and in addition to broad coverage of aid programs, analyzes details of the aid relationship to discern the function of the different variables of aid. In one coherent volume, International Aid outlines sound theoretical bases for discussion of aid programs, provides valuable insights into contemporary practices, and offers far-reaching suggestions on the future of aid programs. On first publication in the mid-1960s, in the midst of the Cold War, this book had considerable influence and its interest outlasts its parochial times as one of the first to discuss the effects of aid on both donor and recipient countries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780202307947
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	08/31/2005
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

I.M.D. Little, born in 1918, was a fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. Trained as a philosopher, he became an economist who paved the way for the rise of social choice theory with his 1950 book, A Critique of Welfare Economics. He subsequently moved on to development economics..

J. M. Clifford was a staff member of the British Overseas Development Institute.

Osvaldo Feinstein is a consultant with the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme, and the International Fund for Agricultural Development. He is a senior adviser at the Spanish Evaluation Agency, professor at the Master in Evaluation of the Complutense University of Madrid, and a member of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research’s Science Council Panel on Monitoring and Evaluation. He is also the series editor of Transaction’s World Bank Series on Evaluation and Development.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION TO THE ALDINETRANS ACTION EDITION, INTRODUCTION AND DEFINITIONS, PART I. WORLD AID AND GENERAL PRINCIPLES, Chapter I. THE HISTORY OF AID, Chapter II. THE QUANTITY OF WORLD AID 1962-3, Chapter III. THE PRINCIPLES OF AID - GIVING, PART II. AID AND DEVELOPMENT, Chapter IV. THE RECIPIENTS' WORLD, Chapter V. SOME DEVELOPMENT THEORY, Chapter VI. TRADE AND AID, Chapter VII. FORMS OF CAPITAL INFLOW, Chapter VIII. PLANNING, PROJECTS, AND AID RELATIONS, Chapter IX. THE TERMS OF AID, AND THE DEBT PROBLEM, Chapter X. THE NEED FOR CAPITAL, AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF CAPITAL FLOWS, PART III. DONORS' PROBLEMS, Chapter XI. WHAT DETERMINES DONORS' AID LEVELS?, Chapter XII. THE NEED FOR CO-OPERATION AT DONOR'S CAPITAL CITY LEVEL, Chapter XIII. THE CO-ORDINATION OF AID ADMINISTRATION, Chapter XIV. SUMMARY CONCLUSIONS, AND THE ROLE OF THE DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE COMMITTEE, PART IV. CONCLUSIONS, Chapter XV. CONCLUSIONS, GLOSSARY, WORKS CITED, INDEX