Foreign aid for development : issues, challenges, and the new agenda / edited by George Mavrotas.

"A study prepared for the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER)."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Aid, growth, and development / Finn Tarp -- Towards the enhanced effectiveness of foreign aid / Gustav Ranis -- Reconstructing the aid effectiveness debate / Machiko Nissanke -- The implications of horizontal inequality for aid / Graham Brown, Frances Stewart, Arnim Langer -- Conflict prevention as a policy objective of development aid / Sakiko Fukuda-Parr -- Aid to fragile states : do donors help or hinder? / Stephen Browne -- Foreign aid and economic development in post-war Lebanon / Ghassan Dibeh -- Can new aid modalities handle politics? / Arjan de Haan, Max Everest-Phillips -- Monitoring and evaluation reform under changing aid modalities / Nathalie Holvoet, Robrecht Renard -- Practical and theoretical implications of the joint evaluation of general budget support / Michael Hubbard -- New aid modalities and reporting support for child rights : lessons from assessing aid for basic social services / Eva Jespersen, Julia Benn -- 'Big push' versus absorptive capacity : how to reconcile the two approaches / Patrick Guillaumont, Sylviane Guillaumont Jeanneney -- Aid and rent-driven growth : Mauritania, Kenya, and Mozambique compared / Richard M. Auty.