Winner of Choice magazine's Outstanding Academic Title award: "...This relatively honest evaluation of the success and failures of donor assistance is a valuable contribution to understanding the complex issue of aid assessment...This volume is strongly recommended for those interested in case studies concerning aid in Africa." -- J. M. Warner, College of Wooster, Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, December 2001.

Foreign assistance is a fundamental component of the international affairs
budget and is viewed by many as an essential instrument of U.S. foreign policy.
Since the end of the Cold War, many have proposed significant changes in the size,
composition, and purpose of the program, several of which have been adopted. The
focus of U.S. foreign aid policy has also been transformed since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. This report provides an overview of the U.S. foreign aid program, b more...

Most donors deliver aid in very similar ways across recipient countries even though recipients vary widely in the quality of their governance, commitment to strong development policies, degree of political stability, and level of institutional capacity. Aid effectiveness could be improved if donor systems were designed to take into account key differences in recipient countries. Proponents of country selectivity argue that donors should provide more aid to countries with better policies and stro more...

Controversies about aid effectiveness go back decades. Some experts charge that aid has enlarged government bureaucracies, perpetuated bad governments, enriched the elite in poor countries, or just been wasted. Others argue that although aid has sometimes failed, it has supported poverty reduction and growth in some countries and prevented worse performance in others.

Perhaps the most important change in the aid picture is the reversal after 1992 of the historic upward trend in aid volumes. This may not be a problem when smaller aid flows are compensated by private flows, as has happened in several developing countries. Yet it may be a problem in low-income countries without access to private capital, which continue to rely on aid for financial resources. The underlying premises of donor-recipient cooperation are very different when aid resources become more more...

Since it was created in 1999, the G-20 has focussed on sustaining global economic stability. In 2006, the G-20 will advance this aim by considering how countries can continue to reform key global economic institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, further meet the challenges posed by demographic change and changes in energy and resource commodity markets, and maximise opportunities to build and sustain prosperity as outlined in the G-20 Accord for Sustained Growth.

DFID's Response to the OECD Development Assistance Committee's Peer Review of the United Kingdom.

Fully implement the new OECD ‘action statement’ on export credits
by August 2006, and press other OECD countries to take similar
action...

The World Bank released this study "Clean Energy and Development: Towards an Investment Framework" in April 2006 during the Spring meetings of the World Bank/International Monetary Fund. According to the report, two-thirds of the increase in world energy demand over the next 25 years will come from developing countries; some 1.6 billion people, mostly living in Africa and South Asia, still have no access to electricity; and nearly 2.4 billion people use traditional biomass fuels – wood, agricu more...

Foreign Policy magazine assembled graphs and charts from various international sources measuring global aid for tsunami relief in its December 2005 report. The indicators include: Death and displacement; comparison of government pledges vs. private donations; humanitarian and NGO response; Indonesia's economic response; and expenditure coordination.