Synopses & Reviews
We live in a world where despite the colossal amount spent globally on healthcare programs, massive inequalities in health—both within and between countries—still exist. In this path-breaking new collection, Geeta Sodhi and Abraar Karan have gathered essays that draw on in-depth empirical research spanning across Asia, Latin America, and Africa, bringing together first-hand experience from a range of international health experts.
Protecting the Health of the Poor provides an outstanding overview of the legal, political, and social factors obstructing the inherent human right for health in poor-performance countries of the global south. This remarkable book offers fresh perspectives from critically engaged scholars who offer a compelling case for re-evaluating how we approach healthcare in developing countries at a global, national, and local level. Together, the contributors make a fierce, logical argument for the necessity of organizations and governments worldwide collaborating on a comprehensive agenda to fight against poverty and to protect the health of the poor.
Synopsis
Foreword; A.Shorrocks Development Aid: Expectations, Effectiveness and Allocation; G.Mavrotas & M.McGillivray Decentralizing Aid with Interested Parties; G.Epstein & I.Gang Blind Spots on the Map of Aid Allocations: Concentration and Complementarity of International NGO Aid; D.J.Koch On the Volatility and Unpredictability of Aid; D.Fielding & G.Mavrotas Aid Project Proliferation and Absorptive Capacity; D.Roodman Aid Allocation and Aid Effectiveness: An Empirical Analysis; A.Isopi & G.Mavrotas Fiscal Effects of Aid in Developing Countries: A Comparative Dynamic Analysis; M.Opoku-Afari, T.Lloyd, M.McGillivray & O.Morrissey Development Effectiveness at the Country Level; R.Picciotto Evaluating Aid Impact; H.White
Synopsis
This book addresses several gaps in knowledge of aid allocation and effectiveness and provides new analytical insights. Topics covered include the interface between aid allocation and perceptions of aid effectiveness, the year-on-year volatility of aid and evaluation of the country-level impacts of aid.
Synopsis
This book addresses several gaps in knowledge of aid allocation and effectiveness and provides new analytical insights. Topics covered include the interface between aid allocation and perceptions of aid effectiveness, the year-on-year volatility of aid and evaluation of the country-level impacts of aid.
About the Author
GEORGE MAVROTAS is Chief Economist of the Global Development Network. Prior to that, he worked for UNU-WIDER as a Research Fellow and Project Director and was on the economics faculties of the Universities of Oxford and Manchester. He has published extensively in development economics and development finance including the edited volumes
Advancing Development: Core Themes in Global Economics and
Domestic Resource Mobilization and Financial Development.
MARK MCGILLIVRAY is Chief Economist of the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), an Honorary Professor of Development Economics at the University of Glasgow, UK an External Fellow of the Centre for Economic Development and International Trade at the University of Nottingham, and an Inaugural Fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association. Prior to joining AusAID he was Deputy Director of UNU-WIDER.
Table of Contents
Foreword--
A.ShorrocksDevelopment Aid: Expectations, Effectiveness and Allocation--G.Mavrotas&--M.McGillivray
Decentralizing Aid with Interested Parties--G.Epstein& I.Gang
Blind Spots on the Map of Aid Allocations: Concentration and Complementarity of International NGO Aid--D.-J.Koch
On the Volatility and Unpredictability of Aid--D.Fielding& G.Mavrotas
Aid Project Proliferation and Absorptive Capacity--D.Roodman
Aid Allocation and Aid Effectiveness: An Empirical Analysis--A.Isopi & G.Mavrotas
Fiscal Effects of Aid in Developing Countries: A Comparative Dynamic Analysis--M.Opoku-Afari, T.Lloyd, M.McGillivray& O.Morrissey
Development Effectiveness at the Country Level--R.Picciotto
Evaluating Aid Impact--H.White