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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Reinventing foreign aid</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Easterly, William</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1957-</namePart>
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    <publisher>MIT Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2008</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>567 p. : ill.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Making aid work / Abhijit Banerjee and Ruimin He -- Use of randomization in the evaluation of development effectiveness / Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer -- It pays to be ignorant : a simple political economy of rigorous program evaluation / Lant Pritchett -- Solutions when the solution is the problem : arraying the disarray in development / Lant Pritchett and Michael Woolcock -- Donors and service delivery / Ritva Reinikka -- The illusion of sustainability / Michael Kremer and Edward Miguel -- An aid-institutions paradox? : a review essay on aid dependency and state building in Sub-Saharan Africa / Todd Moss, Gunilla Pettersson, and Nicolas van de Walle -- Why do aid agencies exist? / Bertin Martens -- Absorption capacity and disbursement constraints / Jakob Svensson -- Donor fragmentation / Stephen Knack and Aminur Rahman -- The IMF and economic development / James Raymond Vreeland -- The knowledge bank / Jonathan Morduch -- Debt relief and fiscal sustainability for heavily indebted poor countries / Craig Burnside and Domenico Fanizza -- Making vaccines pay / Michael Kremer -- Can we build a better mousetrap? Three new insitutions designed to improve aid effectiveness / Steven Radelet and Ruth Levine -- Competing with central planning : marketplaces for international aid / Dennis Whittle and Mari Kuraishi -- Placing enterprise and business thinking at the heart of the war on poverty / Kurt Hoffman -- Avoid hubris: and other lessons for reformers / John McMillan -- Seven deadly sins: reflections on donor fallings / Nancy Birdsall.</tableOfContents>
  <tableOfContents>HKBU library</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by William Easterly ; foreword by Nancy Birdsall ; sponsored by the Center for Global Development.</note>
  <note type="venue">YT2025 M10</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Economic assistance</topic>
    <geographic>Developing countries</geographic>
    <topic>Evaluation</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Economic development projects</topic>
    <geographic>Developing countries</geographic>
    <topic>Evaluation</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">HC60 R364 2008</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780262550666</identifier>
  <identifier type="isbn">0262550660</identifier>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780262050906</identifier>
  <identifier type="isbn">0262050900</identifier>
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