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Foreign aid is now a $100bn business and is expanding more rapidly today than it has for a generation. But does it work? Indeed, is it needed at all?

Other attempts to answer these important questions have been dominated by a focus on the impact of official aid provided by governments. But today possibly as much as 30 percent of aid is provided by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and over 10 percent is provided as emergency assistance.

In this first-ever attempt to provide an overall assessment of aid, Roger Riddell presents a rigorous but highly readable account of aid, warts and all. oes Foreign Aid Really Work? sets out the evidence and exposes the instances where aid has failed and explains why. The book also examines the way that politics distorts aid, and disentangles the moral and ethical assumptions that lie behind the belief that aid does good. The book concludes by detailing the practical ways that aid needs to change if it is to be the effective force for good that its providers claim it is.

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August 15, 2008
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"Roger Riddell's text provides the single best introduction to the history and range of contemporary debates associated with foreign aid, including the rise of international NGOs as major actors and the centrality of domestic politics to shaping aid practice."--Foreign Affairs

"An excellent and significant book"--Alex De Waal, Times Literary Supplement

"Essential reading for anyone interested in the subject of aid and wishing to be informed about the issues involved."--Times Higher Education Supplement

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Roger Riddell is a Non-Executive Director of Oxford Policy Management and a Principle of The Policy Practice. He was Chair of the first Presidential Economic Commission of Independent Zimbabwe in 1980, and Chief Economist of the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries from 1981-83. From 1984 to 1998, he was a senior Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute, London and for five years to 2004 was International Director of Christian Aid.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press; Illustrated edition (August 15, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 536 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0199544468
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0199544462
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.65 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.21 x 6.14 x 1.08 inches

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Roger Riddell was born in Birmingham, England in 1947.

He is by training a development economist. He lived and worked in Zimbabwe for 12 years.

In 2007, he published his last major academic work Does Foreign Aid Really Work?

In 2013, Roger cycled 3,500 miles across the United States, coast to coast, with his daughter Becky and he is now semi-retired. He lives with his wife Abby near Oxford and they have three grown-up daughters who, when the family was not living in Zimbabwe, Zambia or the United States, grew up in north London.

His first novel, Tapestries of Difference, was published in October 2018.

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Excellent Review of Development Literature!

Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2009

Riddell has done an excellent job to update his earlier work - Foreign Aid Reconsidered (a seminal work) to include the massive changes in aid that have occurred in the past 20 years, especially the shift to NGOs.

His depth of knowledge, both firsthand and theoretical, of development is clear from the very start. It is clearly a very, very well researched book.

The question he aims to answer is obviously huge, and he makes it quite clear that there are no yes/no answers. He deftly avoids over-generalizing, but does an incredible job to work with the limited and biased data that exists on development.

The greatest strength of the book is really as a massive, 500 page literature review. He is able to sum up, in a very readable way, the major debates on development's efficacy. In the end, he presents a very well thought out normative set of suggestions on how to fix many of the problems he highlights about aid - a refreshing piece of concrete steps (which he admits readily are only the framework, and subject to much debate). Yet I think it's very important to point out that, despite his catchy title, this is not your run of the mill, "How to End Poverty in 10 Years With MicroHydro" book. This is a scholarly work that looks at all aspects of aid, even though it seems aimed at a wider audience. There are no easy answers, but Riddell's analysis is penetrating.

Overall, its an excellent piece of critical development scholarship, and comes highly recommended for anyone interested or involved in development, from NGOs to academia. He plows through the numerous, unfounded myths that go both for and against aid through detailed reasoning and evidence. He avoids the trivial, surface level problems and goes straight to the systemic contradictions of aid.

If I was to sum up the message of the book in a few words - and answer the question of the title - it would be that, to Riddell, aid is working, but not nearly as well as it could.

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Alexander Sokol

Balanced, packed with information, unusually dry

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 29, 2011

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Riddell's book asks the question: during the last 60 years of foreign aid, has the aid accomplished its purpose? Has it made tangible differences in the lives of other people, and to how large a degree has it done this efficiently? Riddell answers this question by compiling many dozens of investigations of this question over the years, and he approaches the question from many different directions in order to obtain a balanced perspective.

The most notable feature of the book is Riddell's ability to never jump to conclusions. There are few "hard" conclusions in the book, rather Riddell constantly weighs evidence for and against every topic. As he also points out, foreign aid is not a fixed concept, but rather a great many different things. The first 150 pages of the book, actually, consists mostly of a survey of the different forms of foreign aid given, as well as the motivations of governmental and non-governmental organizations for giving aid. In general, Riddell has a very balanced and thorough manner of investigating the world of foreign aid, and he certainly makes it clear that whatever the answer to his main question is, it is certainly not a simple "yes" or "no".

While this thorough manner is laudable, it also in a sense becomes the stumbling block of the book. Riddell's book is possible among the driest, and frankly, most boring books that I have ever read. Through the 400-page dense academic prose, there are only a handful of graphs and tables. Precisely because so many of the answers to questions about foreign aid are not cut in stone, graphical representations of real data instead of references to a plethora of papers would have made the text both more accessible and more lively. The lack of graphs and other illustrations means that while there is an immense amount of information in Riddell's book, it is not very easily accessible, and the lack of data also makes it much more difficult to grasp the reasoning behind Riddell's arguments. This is particularly troublesome as Riddell's analyses are, because of their dizzying depth and insistence on providing the full picture, very long and hard to keep complete track of, to such a degree that it actually becomes rather hard to specify what the conclusions to be made really are. At the end of several chapters, so many different aspects of each topic had been considered that I often found myself unable to recall what the main topic of the chapter actually was.

I would recommend the book as a thorough and balanced account on the nature and functioning of foreign aid, although it is rather a shame that it is so terribly boring and monotonous, as well as somewhat difficult to follow because of its insistence on depth and completeness. In this sense, it is really more a work of reference than a work to be read as a textbook.

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RPM

Do You Really Want to Understand Foreign Aid?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 20, 2009

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There are lots of books available on and around the subject of foreign aid. As a layperson wanting to better understand this complex and contentious subject I think it is a question of being careful what you read.

'Does Foreign Aid Really Work?' provides a comprehensive and impartial overview of the subject.

I found this book extremely interesting, thought provoking and well constructed.

If there is anything less positive to say it might be that, if you are looking for a light read to 'dip into the subject', this may not be for you. However, I believe that taking this approach would be a false economy in terms of spending time reading some less comprehensive and perhaps partial alternatives.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 9, 2010

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Although an extremely comprehensive "heavy" academic style book it is written in a way we should all be able to understand. A must read for all involved or interested in alleviating poverty and "development"

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Elspeth V Pentland

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 13, 2015

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Makes you think about the Subject.

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