Programme Aid and Development: Beyond Conditionality

by White; Howard

• ISBN13: 9780415259880
• ISBN10: 0415259886
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-12-27
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This important contribution to the literature on development economics analyses the effectiveness of programme aid - i.e. aid that is given in the form of projects. Using real world examples from countries such as Nicaragua, Tanzania, and Vietnam this book deals with one of the core issues in development economics today.

Table of Contents

List of figures	xi
List of tables	xiii
Preface	xviii
List of acronyms	xix
PART I Introduction and methodology	1	(32)
Programme aid and the international financial institutions	3	(14)
Introduction	3	(1)
The World Bank and the IMF	4	(1)
The origin of programme aid	5	(5)
The nature of the conditions and the conditionality process	10	(4)
The future of the World Bank and IMF	14	(1)
Overview of the book	15	(2)
The evaluation of programme aid: a methodological framework	17	(16)
Assessing the impact of programme aid	17	(1)
The meaning of programme aid	17	(2)
Conceptual framework	19	(2)
Methodology	21	(12)
PART II Case studies	33	(420)
Development by default: programme aid to Bangladesh	35	(38)
Jan Kees Van Donge
Introduction	35	(1)
Aid flows to Bangladesh	35	(5)
Policy reform and policy dialogue	40	(7)
Aid effectiveness	47	(17)
Conclusion	64	(2)
Appendices	66	(7)
Supporting success: economic growth in Cape Verde in the early 1990s	73	(33)
Introduction	73	(1)
Aid to Cape Verde	74	(6)
Policy reforms	80	(9)
The role of aid	89	(5)
Concluding comments	94	(2)
Appendices	96	(10)
Politics and partnership in Ghana in the 1980s, with reference to co-financing as a bilateral aid instrument	106	(44)
NH Sowa
Introduction	106	(1)
Aid in Ghana	107	(5)
The reform programme	112	(11)
The macro impact of aid funds	123	(8)
Development impact	131	(9)
Conclusions	140	(10)
From rehabilitation to recovery: Mozambique in the 1990s	150	(44)
Introduction	150	(1)
Aid to Mozambique	150	(11)
Policy reform	161	(12)
Development performance and aid effectiveness	173	(9)
Concluding comments	182	(2)
Appendices	184	(10)
Aid, debt and dependence: programme aid in Nicaragua	194	(54)
Introduction	194	(1)
Aid to Nicaragua	194	(9)
Donors and policy reform	203	(14)
The impact of aid	217	(10)
Supply response and poverty reduction	227	(6)
Conclusion	233	(3)
Appendices	236	(12)
A hesitant reformer: Tanzania in the 1990s	248	(41)
Jan Kees Van Donge
Introduction	248	(1)
Trends in aid and programme aid	248	(6)
The evolution of policy dialogue in Tanzania	254	(11)
Economic and social development and the role of aid	265	(11)
Conclusion	276	(2)
Appendices	278	(11)
What does the `showcase' show? Programme aid in Uganda	289	(59)
Jan Kees Van Donge
Introduction	289	(1)
Programme aid to Uganda	289	(7)
Policies, policy changes and the role of donors	296	(16)
The impact of aid funds	312	(7)
Aid effectiveness: supply effects and poverty reduction	319	(15)
Conclusion	334	(3)
Appendices	337	(11)
Aid in a rapidly growing `off-track' economy: Vietnam in the 1990s	348	(54)
Jan Kees Van Donge
Introduction	348	(1)
Aid to Vietnam	349	(3)
Policy reform and policy dialogue	352	(15)
Socio-economic development in the period of reform	367	(20)
Macroeconomic impact of aid inflows	387	(7)
The future of Vietnamese development and the case for programme aid	394	(2)
Appendix	396	(6)
A black sheep among reformers? Zambia in the 1990s	402	(51)
Introduction	402	(1)
Aid to Zambia in the 1990s	402	(4)
Donor influence on the Zambian reform programme	406	(14)
Government fiscal performance	420	(7)
External account performance	427	(6)
Programme aid, growth and poverty reduction	433	(6)
Concluding comments	439	(2)
Appendices	441	(12)
PART III Thematic summaries	453	(88)
Modalities of programme aid	455	(25)
The objectives and rationale for programme aid	455	(3)
Trends and patterns in programme aid	458	(5)
Programme aid modalities	463	(13)
Does modality matter?	476	(4)
The role of donor agencies in policy change	480	(25)
Introduction: the political economy of reform	480	(5)
External actors in domestic politics	485	(8)
How has Sweden influenced policies?	493	(8)
Conclusions	501	(4)
Have reforms worked?	505	(18)
Policy change in Swedish programme countries	505	(2)
Policy change and economic performance	507	(10)
Governance and political reform	517	(2)
Concluding comments	519	(4)
The impact of programme aid funds	523	(18)
Introduction	523	(1)
Approach to the analysis	523	(4)
Aid's impact on the external account	527	(9)
Fiscal response, stabilisation, savings and investment	536	(2)
Some concluding comments	538	(3)
PART IV Conclusion	541	(12)
Conclusions on programme aid and development: beyond conditionality	543	(10)
Introduction	543	(1)
Main findings	544	(2)
The role of the IFIs	546	(3)
The HIPC initiative and the rise of budget support	549	(4)
Index	553