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Aid Impact and Poverty Reduction

  • Steen Folke
  • Henrik Nielsen
Book

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Governance, Security, and Development book series (GSD)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: Aid Relations, Aid Impact and Poverty Reduction

    1. Introduction: Aid Relations, Aid Impact and Poverty Reduction
      Steen Folke, Henrik Nielsen
      Pages 1-27

  3. Aid Relations: Approaches and Dilemmas

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 29-29
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    2. Challenging the Injustice of Poverty: Rethinking Aid Strategies
      Rehman Sobhan
      Pages 31-51
    3. Flexible Standards for Controlled Empowerment? Microfinance as a Case-Study of Aid Management
      James Copestake
      Pages 53-78
    4. Aid Modalities and the Arts of Government
      Jeremy Gould
      Pages 79-94
    5. From Humanitarianism to Human Rights: Reflections on a Danish-Ethiopian Aid Model
      Fiona Wilson
      Pages 95-125

  4. Aid Impact: Cases and Contexts

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 127-127
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    2. Assessing Impact with Limited Outcome Data: Experience from a Theory-Based Approach to the Evaluation of Social Funds
      Soniya Carvalho, Howard White
      Pages 129-152
    3. Reaching the Poor in an Integrated Rural Development Project in Bangladesh
      Steen Folke
      Pages 153-174
    4. The Impact of a Joint NGO Program in North Wollo, Ethiopia: Enhanced Food Security for the Poor?
      Pernille Sørensen
      Pages 175-200
    5. Domestic Water, Bikas, and Modernity: Exploring the Impacts of Finnish Aided Water Supply Project in Nepal
      Sudhindra Sharma
      Pages 201-228
    6. Coping Strategies within a Development Project
      Henrik Nielsen, Yussuf Adam
      Pages 229-244
  5. Back Matter
    Pages 245-250
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About this book

Introduction

Developing broad, holistic notions of 'impact' to measure the effects of international development assistance, this book makes a significant contribution to understanding the international political economy. Leading experts focus on enhancing aid's ability to reduce poverty in poor countries.

Keywords

economy evaluation Governance government management NGO political economy poverty

Editors and affiliations

  • Steen Folke
    • 1
  • Henrik Nielsen
    • 2
  1. 1.Danish InstituteDanmark
  2. 2.international development StudiesRoskilde UniversityDanmark

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