The Macroeconomic Management of Foreign Aid

The Macroeconomic Management of Foreign Aid
Author: Mr.Peter Isard
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2006-04-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Since the adoption of the Milennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000, the challenge of reducing poverty around the world has been more prominent on the agenda of the international community. Relatively slow progress toward meeting the MDGs by the 2015 target date has added to the urgency of this effort. Two influential reports - The United Nations Millennium Project Report (the "Sachs Report") and the Commission for Africa Report (the "Blair Report") envisage substantial increases in aid flows to poor countries, especially to countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The International community sees increases in aid, along with improvements in recipient policies and freer global trade, as necessary for global prosperity and poverty reduction.

Assessing Aid

Assessing Aid
Author:
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1998
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780195211238

Assessing Aid determines that the effectiveness of aid is not decided by the amount received but rather the institutional and policy environment into which it is accepted. It examines how development assistance can be more effective at reducing global poverty and gives five mainrecommendations for making aid more effective: targeting financial aid to poor countries with good policies and strong economic management; providing policy-based aid to demonstrated reformers; using simpler instruments to transfer resources to countries with sound management; focusing projects oncreating and transmitting knowledge and capacity; and rethinking the internal incentives of aid agencies.

Development

Development
Author: Ian Goldin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2018
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0198736258

What is development -- How does development happen? -- Why are some countries rich and others poor? -- What can be done to accelerate development? -- The evolution of development aid -- Sustainable development -- Globalization and development -- The future of development.

Foreign Aid and Development

Foreign Aid and Development
Author: Finn Tarp
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2000-08-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134608489

Aid has worked in the past but can be made to work better in the future. This book offers important new research and will appeal to those working in economics, politics and development studies as well as to governmental and aid professionals.

Aid and Reform in Africa

Aid and Reform in Africa
Author: Shantayanan Devarajan
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 724
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780821346693

Finally, when the country enters the second generation of reforms, such as public sector institutional reform, short-term, conditionality-based aid can once again be harmful - by reducing ownership, participation, and sustainability of the reform process."--BOOK JACKET.

Managing Reductions in Aid Inflows: Assessing Policy Choices in Haiti

Managing Reductions in Aid Inflows: Assessing Policy Choices in Haiti
Author: Ioana Moldovan
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2018-09-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1484376420

A low-income country such as Haiti that confronts an environment of diminishing aid inflows must assess tradeoffs among the available policy options: spending cuts, monetization, sales of debt, or use of foreign reserves. To provide the analytical tools for this task, the paper draws from a set of DSGE models recently developed to evaluate policy choices in low-income countries for which external aid flows represent an important revenue source. Two simplified stylized variations of the main model are used to gain intuition and initially assess the trdeaoffs. Subsequenctly a full-scale small open economy DSGE model, calibrated to match conditions in Haiti and in similar low-income countries, is employed. Several key results are common to all model versions. While sales of foreign exchange reserves can compensate for the loss of aid inflows, this strategy is not sustainable. The remaining policy choices entail larger welfare costs, involving lower consumption levels and real depreciation. The results suggest that a mixture of spending cuts and depreciation is the best strategy, when use of foreign reserves is constrained.

Macroeconomic Management

Macroeconomic Management
Author: Soumitra Sharma
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 285
Release: 1996-01-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1349242802

This volume discusses major macroeconomic policies and issues from theoretical and practical perspective focusing on the link between theory of macroeconomic management policy and its practice in the last few decades. The topics selected here are of persistent interest for those interested in economic policy - theorists and policists.

Foreign Aid, Debt, and Growth in Zambia

Foreign Aid, Debt, and Growth in Zambia
Author: Per-Åke Andersson
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789171064622

A study which discusses the structural problems in Zambia and the policies of adjustment that have been tried. It also analyses the impact of various strategies with regard to external resource transfers. The results show that the scope for growth is highly dependent on the tightness of the external resource constraint, and that debt service tends to dominate the policy-making.

Advancing Development

Advancing Development
Author: G. Mavrotas
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 830
Release: 2007-01-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230801463

This book reflects on current thinking in development economics and on what may happen over the next two decades. As well as studying development economics in retrospect, the volume explores the current debates and challenges and looks forward at the problems that affect the global capacity to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.