During the past five decades, sub-Saharan Africa has received more foreign aid than has any other region of the world, and yet poverty remains endemic throughou

Sumner and Mallett review the literature on aid in light of shifts in the aid system and the increasing concentration of the world's poor in middle-income count

Aid has worked in the past but can be made to work better in the future. This book offers important new research and will appeal to those working in economics,

International cooperation has never been more needed, but the current system of "aid" is outdated and ineffective. The Future of Aid calls for a wholesale restr

Explores the different choices made by donor governments when delivering foreign aid projects around the world.