Routledge Library Editions: Development will re-issue works which address economic, political and social aspects of development. Published over more than four decades these books trace the emergence of development as one of the most important contemporary issues and one of the key areas of study for modern social science. The books cover the most important themes within development and include studies of Latin America, Africa and Asia. Authors include Sir Alexander Cairncross, W. Arthur Lewis, Lord Peter Bauer and Cristobal Kay.
An extensive collection of previously hard to access or out of print books, this set presents an unrivalled opportunity to build up a wealth of material in the field of development studies, with a particular focus upon economic and political concerns. The volumes in the collection offer both a global overview of the history of development in the twentieth century, and a huge variety of case studies on the development of individual nations.
Author(s): Various Authors
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 1179
City: London
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Volume 7
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List of Tables and Figures
Preface
1. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF US FOREIGN AID: PAST AND PRESENT
Introduction
The Blurred Lines of Foreign Aid Policy
Contemporary Foreign Aid Programs
The Evolution of US Postwar Foreign Aid
2. CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON FOREIGN AID
Introduction
Harsh Evaluations From The Political Spectrum
3. THE BUREAUCRATIC ROLE CONFLICT MODEL
Introduction
The Need For Policy Models
Results of Foreign Aid
Decision Premises or Goals
Constraints: Rules and Repertoires
Opportunities: Role Conflict
Conclusion
4. US AID TO LATIN AMERICA
Introduction
Results
Goals
Constraints
Role Conflict
Conclusion
5. US AID TO ASIA
Introduction
Goals
Results
Constraints
Role Conflict
Conclusion
6. US AID TO THE MIDDLE EAST
Introduction
Results
Goals
Constraints
Policy Actors
Conclusion
7. CONCLUSION
Introduction
Summary and Conclusion
Recommendations
Index
Volume 8
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Introduction
1 Aid: motives
2 Aid: allocation principles
3 Aid and economic growth I
4 Aid and economic growth II
5 Debt and the terms of aid
6 Aid tying: trade and resource allocation effects
7 Some questions and further issues
Appendix: Resource gap models: statistical estimation of the parameters
Further reading
Volume 9
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Introduction
1 The Background
2 Aims and Achievements Since Independence
The Agricultural Sector
Manufacturing
African Participation
The Role of Government
The Current Situation
3 The Facts of Aid
British Capital Aid
British Technical Assistance
The Commonwealth Development Corporation
Aid From Other Sources
The Costs of Aid
4 British Aid Policy and Administration in Kenya
The Early Years, 1963–69
Aid Administration Today
Policy Issues
Other Donors’ Policies
The Commonwealth Development Corporation
5 Aid in Action
Part One: The Land Transfer Programme
1960–65
1966–74
The Effects of British Aid on Land Settlement
The Evaluation of Aid for Land Transfer
Appendix: A Model of Expropriation
Part Two: The Mumias Sugar Company
History of the Project
The Project in Prospect and Practice
The Outgrowers
Mumias and Rural Development
Mumias and ‘Appropriate Technology’
Other Considerations on Mumias as an Aid Project
Part Three: The Special Rural Development Programme
SRDP in Kwale
The Lessons of SRDP for Aid Donors
SRDP and District Development
6 The Influence of Aid
Fungibility
Public Finance
Other Government Policies
Administration
Political Economy
Conclusion: Incomes and Income Equality
7 Policy Implications for British Aid
8 Controversies Over Aid
Index
Volume 10
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Preface
Glossary
Introduction
1 India’s Aid Resources in Macroeconomic Context
Introduction
Measurement of aid flows
Size of aid flows to India
Impact of aid on economic growth
India’s future capital inflows: aid or commercial lending?
Conclusions
References
2 Aid and Poverty in India
Dilemmas in using policy against poverty
Scale and structure of aid: impact on poverty
Aid to agriculture: poverty-oriented?
Aid other than to food and agriculture: poverty impact
Learning from India
References
3 Policy Dialogue
Surprising facts and aid processes
From bilateral leverage to multilateral sector dialogue
Before leverage
Towards the crisis of bilateral macro-leverage
Aid 1965–85: towards multilateral sector dialogue
The problem of ‘ideology’ in policy dialogue
Risk of rigidity
Changing fashions
Choosing sectors and topics for dialogue
Can the dialoguer deliver?
References
4 The Systemic Effects of Aid and Donor Procedures
Introduction
Many donors: help or hindrance?
Systemic aspects of multilateral aid
Systemic aspects of bilateral aid
Local cost finance
Donor procedures
References
Chapter 5 Project Aid to India
Role and evaluation of project aid
The World Bank Group’s project sample
Some projects from other donors
Appendix: Does India’s project aid matter?
References
6 Resource Management, Institution Building, and Technical Assistance
Aid’s contribution to resource management and institution building: the organized sector
Resource management and institution building: the rural sector
Aid to remove administrative and manpower deficiencies
References
7 Aid and Market Forces
The ‘control syndrome’ and the market critique
The effects on private foreign investment
The control syndrome and domestic business
Donors and the control syndrome
How much aid goes to the private sector?
Aid and the private sector: recent policy changes
References
Appendix Conclusions of the India Aid Effectiveness Study
Notes
Index
Volume 11
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Preface
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Introduction
1 Background to Malawi
Colonisation and After
Malawi at Independence, 1964
Poverty
Federal Effects
Lack of Skilled Manpower
Physical Resources
The Economic Infrastructure
Economic Dependence: Needs and Prospects
The Development Strategy
2 Malawi’s Economic Performance after Independence
Crisis and Consolidation
General Economic Performance
Output
Employment
Investment, Consumption and Savings
Public Finance and Administration
Balance of Payments and External Trade
Development of the Infrastructure
Development of the Social Services
Land and Population
Conclusion
3 Britain as Donor
General British Aid Policy
Britain’s Aid Programme to Malawi
Consistency of Objectives
British Aid to Malawi: the Facts
Volume
Terms and Conditions of Aid
Scope for Leverage
Conclusions
Appendix: CDC’s Role in Malawi
4 Budgetary Assistance
Government Finance and Budgetary Aid
Contribution to Development
An Expenditure Cut
Financing the Deficit without Budgetary Aid
British Policy on Budgetary Aid
The Basis for the Elimination Policy
Why Malawi Agreed
Was the Rate of Elimination Appropriate to Malawi’s Needs?
The Gentleman’s Agreement
5 Aid to Malawi’s Development Account
Malawi’s Development Programme
British Aid
British Influence on Malawi’s Development Choices
Direct Effects of British Project Aid
Shunting
Assessment of British Project Aid
Natural Resources
Transport
Education
Other Aided Projects
6 Britain’s Technical Assistance to Malawi
Supplementation Schemes
Malawi’s Localisation Policy
The Effects of the Supplementation Schemes
Without Expatriates in the Public Service
Obtaining Expatriate Public Servants without British Aid
Alternative Approaches to Localisation
Volunteers
Overseas Training and Education
7 Conclusions
Aid and Development
Implications for Future Aid Policy in General
Implications for Aid to Malawi
Index
Volume 12
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Introduction: The Role of the OPEC Member Countriesin Financing Third-World Development
1 The Establishment and Evolution of the OPEC Fund
2 The OPEC Fund’s Experience (mid-1976 to mid-1983): Its Approaches and Procedures, the Magnitude of its Assistance, and its Impact on Development
3 Agriculture and Energy in the OPEC Fund’s Activities—A Sectoral Perspective
4 The OPEC Fund and Africa—A Geographical Perspective
I African Development and the Role of the OPEC Fund
II Supporting Sub-Saharan Africa: the Need for Concerted Strategy
5 The OPEC Fund and the Least Developed Countries: An Orientation Towards the Poor
I The OPEC Fund’s Assistance to the LLDCs
II The Need for Commitment
6 Innovative Forms of Cooperation: The OPEC Fund’s Approach
I Institutional Cooperation and Co-financing with Other Donor Agencies
II New Partnerships in the 1980s: Co-financing with Commercial Sources of Funds
7 The OPEC Fund and the North-South Dialogue—SomePersonal Reflections
Annex 1: The OPEC Fund’s Loans and Grants, 1976-April 1983, by Region
Africa
Asia
Latin America and the Caribbean
Loans and Grants Signed to April 15, 1983
Grants for Technical Assistance, Research, etc.
Annex 2:Tables 9–20
Detailed Statistical Data Referred to in Chapters 3 and 5
Annex 3:Acronyms
Index
