A Framework for understanding aid effectiveness determinants, strategies and tradeoffs
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2013
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Howes, Stephen
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Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia
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Prominent reform agendas for aid abound.
How do they relate to each other? This article
tries to organise the aid reform literature by
proposing a general framework for thinking
about the determinants of aid effectiveness and
strategies for improving the same. It presents
three schools of thought on aid effectiveness:
the recipient, donor and transaction costs
schools. It argues that none of the reform
agendas proposed by these schools dominates.
Although actual aid reform agendas will
combine elements of all three schools, there
are in fact important tradeoffs between the
recipient and the donor school reform
agendas, and between the transaction costs
and the donor school reform agendas. Contrary
to the clarion calls of prominent aid
reform advocates, aid reform in practice is a
messy and difficult business.
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Asia & The Pacific Policy Studies
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