{"product_id":"giving-aid-effectively-mark-t-buntaine-9780190467456","title":"Giving Aid Effectively: The Politics of Environmental Performance and Selectivity at Multilateral Development Banks","description":"International organizations do not always live up to the expectations and mandates of their member countries. One of the best examples of this gap is the environmental performance of multilateral development banks, which are tasked with allocating and managing approximately half of all development assistance worldwide. In the 1980s and 1990s, the multilateral development banks came under severe criticism for financing projects that caused extensive deforestation, polluted large urban areas, displaced millions of people, and destroyed valuable natural resources. In response to significant and public failures, member countries established or strengthened administrative procedures, citizen complaint mechanisms, project evaluation, and strategic planning processes. All of these reforms intended to close the gap between the mandates and performance of the multilateral development banks by shaping the way projects are approved. \u003cem\u003eGiving Aid Effectively\u003c\/em\u003e provides a systematic examination of whether these efforts have succeeded in aligning allocation decisions with performance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMark T. Buntaine argues that the most important way to give aid effectively is \u003cem\u003eselectivity\u003c\/em\u003e--moving towards projects with a record of success and away from projects with a record of failure for individual recipient countries. This book shows that under certain circumstances, the control mechanisms established to close the gap between mandate and performance have achieved selectivity. Member countries prompt the multilateral development banks to give aid more effectively when they generate information about the outcomes of past operations and use that information to make less successful projects harder to approve or more successful projects easier to approve. This argument is substantiated with the most extensive analysis of evaluations across four multilateral development banks ever completed, together with in-depth case studies and dozens of interviews. More generally, \u003cem\u003eGiving Aid Effectively\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates that member countries have a number of mechanisms that allow them to manage international organizations for results.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark T. Buntaine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0190467452\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190467456\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.20w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2016","brand":"Mark T. Buntaine","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44159190139135,"sku":"9780190467456","price":135.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7aba7513-e30a-48b5-8946-9b3773a82d3a.jpg?v=1689081144","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/giving-aid-effectively-mark-t-buntaine-9780190467456","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}