Journal of Development Studies articles from August 2001

Journal of Development Studies archives from August 2001

Changing the Conditions for Development Aid: A New Paradigm?
August 1, 2001... I. INTRODUCTION In 1998 the World Bank published a report entitled Assessing Aid: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why [World Bank, 1998]. This report presented the results of an extensive investigation into the effectiveness of development...

On Aid, Growth and Good Policies.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2001... I. INTRODUCTION The World Bank policy research report, Assessing Aid [World Bank, 1998], provides a careful, and rather self-critical, evaluation of the Bank's recent experience with foreign aid. A large part of the report can be read as...

Are There Negative Returns to Aid?(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2001... I. INTRODUCTION The World Bank report Assessing Aid argues that a reallocation of the existing aid flows to poor countries with sound management would lift 18 million more per year out of poverty [World Bank, 1998: 16]. This figure is...

Aid and Performance: A Reassessment.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2001... I. INTRODUCTION Aid has been assessed [World Bank, 1998; Burnside and Dollar, 2000]. The question raised thirteen years ago by Cassen et al. [1986] has been answered. It can work, depending on policies. If they are good, aid will be...

'Good Governance: The Rise and Decline of a Policy Metaphor?
August 1, 2001... I. INTRODUCTION For over a decade, the notion of 'good governance' has served as a general guiding principle for donor agencies in demanding adherence from recipient governments to proper administrative processes in the handling of...

Assessing Aid and Global Governance.
August 1, 2001... I. INTRODUCTION Assessing Aid [World Bank, 1998] is a pathbreaking report undertaken by a group of enthusiastic scholars at the World Bank. The report is written in an objective manner and it raises a number of important issues. The main...

Aid Illusion and Public Sector Fiscal Behaviour.
August 1, 2001... I. INTRODUCTION Foreign aid is a principal source of public sector revenue in the poorest developing countries. Aid inflows were roughly equal in magnitude to taxation, and constituted approximately half of all public expenditure, in low...