Includes bibliographical references and index.

Official development assistance and impact assessment : theoretical and practical frameworks / Viktor Jakupec and Max Kelly -- Conceptualizing impact assessment in foreign aid / Max Kelly -- Competing development paradigms and alternative evaluations of aid effectiveness : challenging the dominant neoliberal vision / John McKay -- Aid for trade : a critical analysis / Viktor Jakupec -- The rhetoric and reality of results and impact assessment in donor agencies : a practitioners' perspective / Simon Milligan, Steve Bertram, and Alwyn Chilver -- Beyond aid distribution : aid effectiveness, neoliberal and neostructural reforms in Pacific Island countries / Amerita Ravuvu and Alec Thornton -- Regulatory impact assessment : the forgotten agenda in ODA / Viktor Jakupec and Max Kelly -- Can we assess the overall impact of development agencies? : the example of corporate results frameworks in multilateral development banks / Marc M. Cohen -- Assessing the impact of knowledge on development partners / William Loxley -- From evidence to action : stakeholder coordination as a determinant of evaluation use / Mateusz Pucilowski -- Inside the black box : modeling the inner workings of social development programs / Sebastian Lemire and Gordon Freer -- Impact assessment and official development assistance : ethnographic research of the World Bank's community-based rural development projects in Ghana / Kwadwo Adusei-Asante and Peter Hancock -- Finding balance : improving monitoring to improve impact assessments of development programmes / Donna Loveridge -- Impact assessment in practice : case studies from Save the Children programs in Lao PDR and Afghanistan / Veronica Bell and Yasamin Alttahir -- The nongovernmental development sector and impact assessment / Jonathan J. Makuwira -- Impact assessment : from theory to practice / Viktor Jakupec and Max Kelly.

Assessing the Impact of Foreign Aid: Value for Money and Aid for Trade provides updated information on how to improve foreign aid programs, exploring the concept and practice of impact assessment within the sometimes-unproblematic approaches advocated in current literature of value for money and aid for trade. Contributors from multi-lateral agencies and NGOs discuss the changing patterns of Official Development Assistance and their effects on impact assessment, providing theoretical, political, structural, methodological, and practical frameworks, discussions, and a theory-practice nexus. With twin foci of economics and policy this book raises the potential for making sophisticated and coherent decisions on aid allocation to developing countries.

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