| Foreword by Nancy Birdsall
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| 1 | Introduction: Can't Take It Anymore?
William R. Easterly
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| I | THE POWER OF SCIENTIFIC EVALUATION—AND WHY ISN’T IT DONE MORE OFTEN? | 45 |
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| 2 | Making Aid Work
Abhijit Banerjee and Ruimin He | 47 |
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| 3 | Use of Randomization in the Evaluation of Development Effectiveness
Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer | 93 |
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| 4 | It Pays to Be Ignorant
A Simple Political Economy of Rigorous Program Evaluation
Lant Pritchett | 121 |
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| II | THE PROBLEMS OF AID-FINANCED DELIVERY OF PUBLIC SERVICES
THE GORDIAN KNOT OF THE STATE | 145 |
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| 5 | Solutions When the Solution Is the Problem
Arraying the Disarray in Development
Lant Pritchett and MIchael Woolcock | 147 |
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| 6 | Donors and Service Delivery
Ritva Reinikka | 179 |
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| 7 | The Illusion of Sustainability
Michael Kremer and Edward Miguel | 201 |
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| 8 | 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 | 255 |
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| III | DYSFUNCTIONAL DONORS AND HOW TO REFORM THEM | 283 |
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| 9 | Why Do Aid Agencies Exist?
Bertin Martens | 285 |
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| 10 | Absorption Capacity and Disbursement Constraints
Jakob Svensson | 311 |
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| 11 | Donor Fragmentation
Stephen Knack and Aminur Rahman | 333 |
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| IV | THE IMF AND WORLD BANK | 349 |
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| 12 | The IMF and Economic Development
James Raymond Vreeland | 351 |
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| 13 | The Knowledge Bank
Jonathan Morduch | 377 |
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| 14 | Debt Relief and Fiscal Sustainability for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries
Craig Burnside and Domenico Fanizza | 399 |
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| V | IMAGINING NEW FORMS OF FOREIGN AID | 415 |
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| 15 | Making Vaccines Pay
Michael Kremer | 417 |
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| 16 | Can We Build a Better Mousetrap?
Three New Institutions Designed to Improve Aid Effectiveness
Steven Radelet and Ruth Levine | 431 |
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| 17 | Competing with Central Planning
Marketplaces for International Aid
Dennis Whittle and Mari Kuraishi | 461 |
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| 18 | Placing Enterprise and Business Thinking at the Heart of the War on Poverty
Kurt Hoffman | 485 |
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| VI | IN CONCLUSION: THE BIG PICTURE | 503 |
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| 19 | Avoid Hubris: And Other Lessons for Reformers
John McMillan | 505 |
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| 20 | Seven Deadly Sins: Reflections on Donor Failings
Nancy Birdsall | 515 |
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| Contributors
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| Index
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