Assessing aid : what works, what doesn't, and why /

This report assesses foreign aid, pointing out that aid is as much a matter of knowledge as it is about money. It discusses the continuing role of financial transfers from rich to poor countries, despite the integrated capital markets; and the role of effective aid in supporting institutional develo...

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Main Author: Dollar, David
Corporate Author: Banco Mundial
Other Authors: Pritchett, Lant
Format: Book
Published: New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 1998
Series:A World Bank policy research report
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505 0 |a Overview: rethinking the money and ideas of aid -- 1. Money matters: in a good policy environment -- 2. Aid can be the midwife of good policies -- 3. Money matters: in a good institutional environment -- 4. Aid can be the midwife of good institutions -- 5. Money, but more ideas, too -- Appendixes 
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