Politics of Aid Selectivity

<p>The first extended analysis of selectivity policies of important bilateral and multilateral aid donors this book combines a policy-analytical with a quantitative-empirical approach. </p><p>Bringing out the conflicts that may exist between foreign assistance agendas and the desire of governments in developing countries to set priorities for their national development policies the author: </p><ul> <p> </p> <li>describes in detail the policies of aid selectivity adopted by the World Bank the Netherlands and the United States since the end of the 1990s including the underlying assumptions</li> <li>looks at key decisions related to a selection of developing countries</li> <li>compares policy-making and different approaches to selectivity in the United Kingdom with those in developing countries.</li> </ul><p>Critical and analytical in style this book is among other areas an invaluable resource for students of various sub-fields of development studies and policy analysis as well as appealing to researchers and policy makers working in the area of foreign assistance across the globe.</p>