Aid is one of the major issues in development and international relations. Aid’s role in the new global political economy is under intense scrutiny, as analysts, politicians and civil society struggle to reach a consensus on such issues as how much and what kinds of aid to support, to which countries to allocate aid and under what conditions.

Contents: Acknowledgements Introduction Peter Burnell and Oliver Morrissey PART I INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AID 1. Peter Bauer and Basil Yamey (1982), ‘Foreign Aid: What is at Stake?’ 2. John M. Cohen, Merilee S. Grindle and S. Tjip Walker (1985), ‘Foreign Aid and Conditions Precedent: Political and Bureaucratic Dimensions’ 3. Peter Burnell (1994), ‘Good Government and Democratization: A Sideways Look at Aid and Political Conditionality’ 4. Brian R. Opeskin (1996), ‘The Moral Foundations of Foreign Aid’ 5. Michael Edwards and David Hulme (1996), ‘Too Close for Comfort? The Impact of Official Aid on Nongovernmental Organizations’ 6. Barbara Connolly (1996), ‘Increments for the Earth: The Politics of Environmental Aid’ 7. Thomas Carothers (1997), ‘Democracy Assistance: The Question of Strategy’ 8. Tony Killick (1997), ‘Principals, Agents and the Failings of Conditionality’ 9. Simon Maxwell and Roger Riddell (1998), ‘Conditionality or Contract: Perspectives on Partnership for Development’ 10. Lisa Ann Richey (2000), ‘Gender Equality and Foreign Aid’ 11. Jose E. Leandro, Hartwig Schafer and Gaspar Frontini (1999), ‘Towards A More Effective Conditionality: An Operational Framework’ 12. Ngaire Woods (2000), ‘The Challenge of Good Governance for the IMF and the World Bank Themselves’ PART II THE ECONOMIC CONTEXT: AID EFFECTIVENESS 13. Keith Griffin (1970), ‘Foreign Capital, Domestic Savings and Economic Development’ 14. Paul Mosley, John Hudson and Sara Horrell (1987), ‘Aid, the Public Sector and the Market in Less Developed Countries’ 15. Edmar L. Bacha (1990), ‘A Three-Gap Model of Foreign Transfers and the GDP Growth Rate in Developing Countries’ 16. Craig Burnside and David Dollar (2000), ‘Aid, Policies, and Growth’ 17. Henrik Hansen and Finn Tarp (2001), ‘Aid and Growth Regressions’ PART III AID AND GOVERNMENT FISCAL BEHAVIOUR 18. Peter S. Heller (1975), ‘A Model of Public Fiscal Behavior in Developing Countries: Aid, Investment, and Taxation’ 19. Howard Pack and Janet Rothenberg Pack (1990), ‘Is Foreign Aid Fungible? The Case of Indonesia’ 20. Susana Franco-Rodriguez, Oliver Morrissey and Mark McGillivray (1998), ‘Aid and the Public Sector in Pakistan: Evidence with Endogenous Aid’ 21. Mark McGillivray and Oliver Morrissey (2000), ‘Aid Fungibility in Assessing Aid: Red Herring or True Concern?’ PART IV THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AID ALLOCATION 22. R.D. McKinlay and R. Little (1977), ‘A Foreign Policy Model of U.S. Bilateral Aid Allocation’ 23. Alfred Maizels and Machiko K. Nissanke (1984), ‘Motivations for Aid to Developing Countries’ 24. Mark McGillivray and Edward Oczkowski (1992), ‘A Two-part Sample Selection Model of British Bilateral Foreign Aid Allocation’ 25. Enzo Grilli and Markus Riess (1992), ‘EC Aid to Associated Countries: Distribution and Determinants’ 26. Peter J. Schraeder, Steven W. Hook and Bruce Taylor (1998), ‘Clarifying the Foreign Aid Puzzle: A Comparison of American, Japanese, French, and Swedish Aid Flows’ PART V DONOR AID POLITICS: INFLUENCES AND TIED AID 27. Paul Mosley (1985), ‘The Political Economy of Foreign Aid: A Model of the Market for a Public Good’ 28. Dennis T. Yasutomo (1989-90), ‘Why Aid? Japan as an “Aid Great Power”’ 29. Oliver Morrissey (1990), ‘The Commercialization of Aid: Business Interests and the UK Aid Budget 1978–88’ 30. Oliver Morrissey (1993), ‘The Mixing of Aid and Trade Policies’ 31. Duncan L. Clarke (1997), ‘US Security Assistance to Egypt and Israel: Politically Untouchable?’ 32. Steven W. Hook and Guang Zhang (1998), ‘Japan’s Aid Policy Since the Cold War: Rhetoric and Reality’ Name Index