Assessing Aid

Aid and Reform in Africa

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Front Matter Contents Foreword Report Team Overview—Rethinking the Money and Ideas of Aid The New International Environment New Thinking on Development Strategy Money Matters—In a Good Policy Environment Aid Can Be the Midwife of Good Policies Money Matters—In a Good Institutional Environment Aid Can Be the Midwife of Good Institutions Money, but More Ideas, Too Chapter 1 Money Matters—In a Good Policy Environment Different Countries, Different Fortunes Why the Divergence? In Countries with Good Management . . . Aid Has Not Favored Countries with Good Management Be Focused Chapter 2 Aid Can Be the Midwife of Good Policies Money—Good or Bad for Reform? Ownership—What Money Cannot Buy Fomenting Reform If Commitment, Money—If Not, Ideas Chapter 3 Money Matters—In a Good Institutional Environment Fungibility? Public Spending-Quality not Quantity What Should Donors Do? Chapter 4 Aid Can Be the Midwife of Good Institutions Better Public Provision Public Provision without Public Providers Making Aid Work for Better Public Services Chapter 5 Money, but More Ideas, Too Vietnam: Adjustment without Lending El Salvador, Pakistan, and Brazil: Education's Decentralization and Reform Cameroon: Health Financing and Delivery Africa's Road Maintenance Initiative Conclusion Appendixes Estimating the Effect of Aid on Growth Explaining the Success or Failure of Structural Adjustment Programs Analysis of the Fungibility of Foreign Aid The Impact of Civil Liberties and Democracy on Government Performance Estimating the Impact of Analytical Work Selected Bibliography