Assessing the Impact of Foreign Aid
Value for Money and Aid for Trade

This book provides an analysis and survey of the theories, policies, and methods driving foreign aid investments worldwide, and includes contributions from multilateral agencies and NGOs that discuss the changing patterns of official government assistance and their effects on a variety of factors.

Viktor Jakupec (Edited by), Max Kelly (Edited by)

9780128036600

Paperback, published 11 November 2015

272 pages
23.4 x 19 x 1.8 cm, 0.59 kg

"The book provides a fresh look into one of the most important unfinished agendas of foreign aid, i.e., the aid effectiveness agenda. It combines theoretical and practical contributions to propose new ways of thinking about the evaluation of the impact of aid, from its conceptualization to its implementation. It convincingly argues for the centrality of impact assessment in development programmes and it proposes reforms to ensure that such assessment truly contributes to making foreign aid an effective tool to improve lives in developing countries. The messages in the book should provide relevant food for thought for aid practioners, policy-makers, and academics alike."  --Massimiliano Calì, World Bank

Assessing the Impact of Foreign Aid: Value for Money and Aid for Trade provides updated information on how to improve foreign aid programs, exploring the concept and practice of impact assessment within the sometimes-unproblematic approaches advocated in current literature of value for money and aid for trade.

1. Official Development Assistance and Impact Assessment – Theoretical and Practical Frameworks. Viktor Jakupec & Max Kelly
2. Conceptualising Impact Assessment in Foreign Aid. Max Kelly
3. Economic Development Paradigms and the Persistence of the Neoliberal Agenda. John McKay
4. Aid for Trade: A Critical Analysis. Viktor Jakupec
5. The Rhetoric and Reality of Results and Impact Assessment in Donor Agencies: a Practitioners’ Perspective. Simon Milligan, Steve Bertram, & Alwyn Chilver
6. Beyond Aid Distribution: Aid effectiveness, Neoliberal and Neostructural Reforms in Pacific Island Countries. Alec Thornton & Amerita Ravuvu
7. Impact assessment in Social Sector Development: Regulatory Impact Assessment. Viktor Jakupec & Max Kelly
8. Can We Assess the Overall Impact of Development Agencies? The Example of Corporate Results Frameworks in Multilateral Development Banks. Marc Cohen
9. Assessing the Impact of Knowledge on Development Partners. William Loxley
10. From Evidence to Action: Stakeholder Coordination as Determinant of Evaluation Use. Mateusz Pucilowski
11. Inside the Black Box: Modelling the Inner Workings of Social Development Programs. Sebastian Lemire & Gordon Freer
12. Impact Assessment and Official Development Assistance: Ethnographic Assessment of the World Bank’s Community-Based Rural Development Projects in Ghana. Kwadwo Adusei-A & Peter Hancock
13. Finding Balance: Improving Monitoring to Improve Impact Assessments of Development Programmes. Donna Loveridge
14. Impact Assessment in Practice: Case Study of Save the Children in the Asian Region. Veronica Bell & Yasamin Alttahir
15. The Non-Governmental Development Sector and Impact Assessment: From Theory to Practice.Jonathan Makuwire
16. Impact Assessment: From Theory to Practice. Viktor Jakupec & Max Kelly

Subject Areas: International economics [KCL]