Aid, Institutions and Development
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
0195676327
Length
x+190p., Figures; Tables; References; Index; 23cm.
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For the past fifty years, aid has been viewed as a major instrument for alleviating poverty in the Third World. The current debate is about the effectiveness for official development assistance or ‘aid’ as it is commonly known. Started as a massive experiment in the 1960s, foreign aid programmes were launched long before there was compelling evidence to suggest they could work. In spite of several decades of such assistance, third world economies have failed ...
