Supporting Effective Aid: A Framework for Future Funding of Multilateral Development Banks (Policy Essay) - Softcover

Eccles, Stephen D.; Gwin, Catherine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565170288 ISBN 13: 9781565170285

Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999

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Powerful global trends demand a wholesale rethinking of the system of international development assistance. A key issue is the future of concessional aid provided by multilateral development banks. What should be the future role of MDB concessional aid? And what is needed to maintain donor countries' support? In a rapidly changing global environment, there is still a strong case for maintaining MDB concessional aid. However, that case only holds provided a new approach is taken which adapts the roles of MDB aid to development lessons of the recent past and changing global conditions. This study argues that without these conditions, continued donor country support cannot and should not be expected. The study lays out a new "framework" for future decision-making of MDB funding, based on: a new performance-based approach to aid allocations among countries; an expansion of MDB investments in regional and global problem solving; the resolution of specific operational issues that stand in the way of greater effectiveness in delivery of aid; and changes in the burden-sharing and governance arrangements of individual MDBs.

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Powerful global trends demand a wholesale rethinking of the system of international development assistance. A key issue is the future of concessional aid provided by multilateral development banks. What should be the future role of MDB concessional aid? And what is needed to maintain donor countries' support?

In a rapidly changing global environment there is still a strong case for maintaining MDB concessional aid. But that case only holds provided a new approach is taken which adapts the roles of MDB aid to development lessons of the recent past and changing global conditions -- and does so in a way that improves aid's effectiveness.

This study argues that without these conditions, continued donor country support cannot and should not be expected. The study lays out a new framework for future decision-making in MDB funding, based on: (1) a new performance-based approach to aid allocations among countries; (2) an expansion of MDB investments in regional and global problem solving; (3) the resolution of specific operational issues that stand in the way of greater effectiveness in delivery of aid; and (4) changes in the burden-sharing and governance arrangements of individual MDBs.

Biografía del autor

Stephen D. Eccles is former vice-president and controller of the World Bank. Catherine Gwin is senior vice president of the Overseas Development Council.

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• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1565170288
• ISBN 13: 9781565170285
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 100
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