Foreign Aid and Development: Lessons Learnt and Directions For The Future

Aid has worked in the past but can be made to work better in the future. In this book, leading economists and political scientist, including experienced aid practitioners, re-examine foreign aid, the evolution of development doctrine over the past 50 years is critically investigated, and conventional wisdom and current practice is challenged. As well as offering contemporary research material, the book seeks to open up new directions for future practice and policy.