tailieunhanh - The Politics of Aid Selectivity

With the ending of the political dichotomy in world politics around 1990, the good governance principle came to occupy an important position in judgements about political regimes in developing countries. Good governance became an important objective in the policies of many aid-giving Western countries and the main international financial institutions, such as the World Bank. Increasingly, however, good governance and market-oriented economic reform came to be subsumed under one heading, leading to what has been called a post-Washington Consensus. This book describes in detail the policies of aid selectivity adopted by the World Bank, the Netherlands and the United States since the end of the 1990s. The main assumptions underlying. | The Politics of Aid Selectivity Good governance criteria in World Bank US and Dutch development assistance Wil Hout Routledge Studies in Development Economics The Politics of Aid Selectivity With the ending of the political dichotomy in world politics around 1990 the good governance principle came to occupy an important position in judgements about political regimes in developing countries. Good governance became an important objective in the policies of many aid-giving Western countries and the main international financial institutions such as the World Bank. Increasingly however good governance and market-oriented economic reform came to be subsumed under one heading leading to what has been called a post-Washington Consensus. This book describes in detail the policies of aid selectivity adopted by the World Bank the Netherlands and the United States since the end of the 1990s. The main assumptions underlying the policies as well as the key decisions related to the selection of developing countries are analysed and critically evaluated. A comparison is made between policy making in these three cases and different approaches to selectivity in the United Kingdom. The book brings out the conflicts that may exist between foreign assistance agendas and the desire of governments in developing countries to set priorities for their national development policies. The Politics of Aid Selectivity is the first extended analysis of selectivity policies of important bilateral and multilateral aid donors and combines a policy-analytical with a quantitative-empirical approach. The book is relevant to students of various sub-fields of development studies and policy analysis among other areas and also has international appeal to researchers and policy-makers working in the area of foreign assistance. Wil Hout is an Associate Professor of World Development at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague and currently serves as Dean of the Institute. He is the author of Capitalism .