George Mavrotas is the Chief Economist of the Global Development Network, formerly a Senior Fellow and Project Director at UNU-WIDER and, prior to that, in the Economics Faculties of the Universities of Oxford and Manchester, UK. He is also a Visiting Professor at CERDI, University of Auvergne in Clermont-Ferrand, France. He is the author and co-author of more than 100 publications on a broad range of development issues. His other books include Advancing Development (Palgrave Macmillan); Commodity Supply Management by Producing Countries (OUP); Domestic Resource Mobilization and Financial Development (Palgrave Macmillan); Financial Development, Institutions, Growth and Poverty Reduction (Palgrave Macmillan); Development Finance in the Global Economy (Palgrave Macmillan); Development Aid: A Fresh Look (Palgrave Macmillan) and Commodities, Governance and Economic Development Under Globalization (Palgrave Macmillan). He holds a PhD in Economics (DPhil) from Oxford.

This important volume should be required reading for aid scholars and practitioners, and for the general reader interested in aid issues. The much discussed questions of whether aid is really effective, and in what ways, receive sophisticated and new analysis here. The editor is himself one of the leading researchers in the field. The debate has been going on a long time, but the questions and the answers have changed, and there are many new insights in this volume about what can and should be done to make aid a better instrument for serving the poor. If you want to know what today's aid debate is all about, this is where you will find the essential materials.

• PART I. FOREIGN AID FOR DEVELOPMENT ; 1. Introduction and overview ; 2. Aid, growth, and development ; PART II. ENHANCING AID EFFECTIVENESS ; 3. Toward the enhanced effectiveness of foreign aid ; 4. Reconstructing the aid effectiveness debate ; PART III. AID TO FRAGILE AND CONFLICT-AFFECTED COUNTRIES ; 5. The implications of horizontal inequality for aid ; 6. Conflict prevention as a policy objective of development aid ; 7. Aid to fragile states: do donors help or hinder? ; 8. Foreign aid and economic development in post-war Lebanon ; PART IV. AID MODALITIES ; 9. Can new aid modalities handle politics? ; 10. Monitoring and evaluation reform under changing aid modalities ; 11. Practical and theoretical implications of the Joint Evaluation of General Budget Support ; 12. New aid modalities and reporting support for child rights: lessons from assessing aid for basic social services ; PART V. MANAGING AID FLOWS ; 13. Big push versus absorptive capacity: how to reconcile the two approaches ; 14. Aid and rent-driven growth: Mauritania, Kenya, and Mozambique compared

George Mavrotas is the Chief Economist of the Global Development Network, formerly a Senior Fellow and Project Director at UNU-WIDER and, prior to that, in the Economics Faculties of the Universities of Oxford and Manchester, UK. He is also a Visiting Professor at CERDI, University of Auvergne in Clermont-Ferrand, France. He is the author and co-author of more than 100 publications on a broad range of development issues. His other books include Advancing Development (Palgrave Macmillan); Commodity Supply Management by Producing Countries (OUP); Domestic Resource Mobilization and Financial Development (Palgrave Macmillan); Financial Development, Institutions, Growth and Poverty Reduction (Palgrave Macmillan); Development Finance in the Global Economy (Palgrave Macmillan); Development Aid: A Fresh Look (Palgrave Macmillan) and Commodities, Governance and Economic Development Under Globalization (Palgrave Macmillan). He holds a PhD in Economics (DPhil) from Oxford.

This important volume should be required reading for aid scholars and practitioners, and for the general reader interested in aid issues. The much discussed questions of whether aid is really effective, and in what ways, receive sophisticated and new analysis here. The editor is himself one of the leading researchers in the field. The debate has been going on a long time, but the questions and the answers have changed, and there are many new insights in this volume about what can and should be done to make aid a better instrument for serving the poor. If you want to know what today's aid debate is all about, this is where you will find the essential materials.

• PART I. FOREIGN AID FOR DEVELOPMENT ; 1. Introduction and overview ; 2. Aid, growth, and development ; PART II. ENHANCING AID EFFECTIVENESS ; 3. Toward the enhanced effectiveness of foreign aid ; 4. Reconstructing the aid effectiveness debate ; PART III. AID TO FRAGILE AND CONFLICT-AFFECTED COUNTRIES ; 5. The implications of horizontal inequality for aid ; 6. Conflict prevention as a policy objective of development aid ; 7. Aid to fragile states: do donors help or hinder? ; 8. Foreign aid and economic development in post-war Lebanon ; PART IV. AID MODALITIES ; 9. Can new aid modalities handle politics? ; 10. Monitoring and evaluation reform under changing aid modalities ; 11. Practical and theoretical implications of the Joint Evaluation of General Budget Support ; 12. New aid modalities and reporting support for child rights: lessons from assessing aid for basic social services ; PART V. MANAGING AID FLOWS ; 13. Big push versus absorptive capacity: how to reconcile the two approaches ; 14. Aid and rent-driven growth: Mauritania, Kenya, and Mozambique compared

George Mavrotas is the Chief Economist of the Global Development Network, formerly a Senior Fellow and Project Director at UNU-WIDER and, prior to that, in the Economics Faculties of the Universities of Oxford and Manchester, UK. He is also a Visiting Professor at CERDI, University of Auvergne in Clermont-Ferrand, France. He is the author and co-author of more than 100 publications on a broad range of development issues. His other books include Advancing Development (Palgrave Macmillan); Commodity Supply Management by Producing Countries (OUP); Domestic Resource Mobilization and Financial Development (Palgrave Macmillan); Financial Development, Institutions, Growth and Poverty Reduction (Palgrave Macmillan); Development Finance in the Global Economy (Palgrave Macmillan); Development Aid: A Fresh Look (Palgrave Macmillan) and Commodities, Governance and Economic Development Under Globalization (Palgrave Macmillan). He holds a PhD in Economics (DPhil) from Oxford.

This important volume should be required reading for aid scholars and practitioners, and for the general reader interested in aid issues. The much discussed questions of whether aid is really effective, and in what ways, receive sophisticated and new analysis here. The editor is himself one of the leading researchers in the field. The debate has been going on a long time, but the questions and the answers have changed, and there are many new insights in this volume about what can and should be done to make aid a better instrument for serving the poor. If you want to know what today's aid debate is all about, this is where you will find the essential materials.

• PART I. FOREIGN AID FOR DEVELOPMENT ; 1. Introduction and overview ; 2. Aid, growth, and development ; PART II. ENHANCING AID EFFECTIVENESS ; 3. Toward the enhanced effectiveness of foreign aid ; 4. Reconstructing the aid effectiveness debate ; PART III. AID TO FRAGILE AND CONFLICT-AFFECTED COUNTRIES ; 5. The implications of horizontal inequality for aid ; 6. Conflict prevention as a policy objective of development aid ; 7. Aid to fragile states: do donors help or hinder? ; 8. Foreign aid and economic development in post-war Lebanon ; PART IV. AID MODALITIES ; 9. Can new aid modalities handle politics? ; 10. Monitoring and evaluation reform under changing aid modalities ; 11. Practical and theoretical implications of the Joint Evaluation of General Budget Support ; 12. New aid modalities and reporting support for child rights: lessons from assessing aid for basic social services ; PART V. MANAGING AID FLOWS ; 13. Big push versus absorptive capacity: how to reconcile the two approaches ; 14. Aid and rent-driven growth: Mauritania, Kenya, and Mozambique compared