Handbook of Aid and Development

Edited by Raj M. Desai, Professor of International Development, Shantayanan Devarajan, Professor of the Practice of International Development, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, DC and Jennifer L. Tobin, Associate Professor of Public Policy, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, US

• Contents1 Introduction to the Handbook of Aid and Development 1Raj M. Desai, Shantayanan Devarajan and Jennifer L. TobinPART I DEBATES AND CHALLENGES2 Development happened. Did aid help? 17Lant Pritchett3 Why is aid given? 38Steven Radelet4 Trends and challenges in aid allocation 54Sarah Blodgett Bermeo5 Why is aid received? 65Samuel Mwita Wangwe6 Hysteresis, aid, and governance: theories and empirics from Africa 77Célestin Monga and Bouba Housseini7 The political economy of aid in African states 110Ken Ochieng’ Opalo8 Curbing corruption in aid 127Elizabeth Dávid-Barrett and Riccardo D’Emidio9 The paradox of aid and donor self-interest 143William Easterly10 Aid targeting 159Ryan C. Briggs11 Donor motives and aid effectiveness 174Christopher Kilby12 Recipient governments and aid flows 187Matthew S. Winters13 Political outcomes of aid 205Cesi Cruz, Julien Labonne and Ashley Wright14 Aid and fragile states 225Anke Hoeffler and Patricia JustinoPART II THE CHANGING AID AND DEVELOPMENT LANDSCAPE15 China’s overseas development program 248Axel Dreher and Bradley C. Parks16 Private aid 263Una Osili and Cathie Carrigan17 Citizen aid 275Allison Schnable18 Managing aid personnel 288Gus Greenstein and Dan Honig19 Aid and civil society organizations 310Duncan Green and Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah20 Vertical funds 325Homi Kharas ⓡ and John W. McArthur21 Blended finance 348Emma Mawdsley and Sarah Hughes-McLure22 Aid and inequality 359Salome Ecker and Andy Sumner23 Climate finance and the multilateral development banks 383Ayse Kaya24 The World Bank and global public goods 403Scott Morris25 On race, equity and aid 418Kathryn Nwajiaku-Dahou and Carmen Leon-Himmelstine

‘Decades after the launch of the first aid projects there is still a robust debate about the effectiveness and impact of development aid. In this valuable Handbook, Desai, Devarajan, Tobin and their co-authors explore all facets of this debate. They hone in on lessons learned and provide new insights into today’s evolving and more complex development aid landscape. I strongly recommend this Handbook as a constant companion for all development practitioners still struggling to make poverty history!’