When the major aid organizations made flows of aid conditional on changes in policy, they prompted an extensive debate in development circles. Aid and Power has made one of the most significant and influential contributions to that debate. This edition has been revised to take account of changes within the World Bank itself and the extension of policy based lending to the formerly socialist economies of east and central Europe.
I: Background; 1: World Development and International Finance Since 1970; 2: The World Bank's Move to Policy-Based Lending; II: The Dynamics of Policy Reform; 3: Conditionality as Bargaining Process; 4: Programme Design; 5: Implementation and Sustainability; III: Assessment of Effectiveness; 6: Evaluation Methodology: Simple Tabular Comparisons; 7: Regression-Based Results; 8: Model-Based Results; IV: Conclusions; 9: Summary of Argument and Policy Proposals
Hamed El-Said, Jane Harrigan, UK) El-Said, Hamed (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) Harrigan, Jane (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Hamed El-Said, Jane Harrigan, UK) El-Said, Hamed (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) Harrigan, Jane (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Sara Horrell, Hazel Johnson, Paul Mosley, UK) Horrell, Sara (University of Cambridge, UK) Johnson, Hazel (The Open University, UK) Mosley, Paul (University of Sheffield