An intensive course about the understanding of International Development Assistance (Foreign Aid), its influence on policy processes and outcomes, and practices. Recommended for policy-makers, development practitioners, and MPhil & PhD students.

1. Dr. Faheem Jehangir Khan
Research Economist, PIDE
faheemjkhan@pide.org.pk
Public Policy & Management:
Int’l Development Assistance
Course Outline

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PIDE, Islamabad
Public Policy & Management: IDA
Modules
1. What is Foreign Aid?
2. The Aid Delivery System
3. Influence of International Development
Assistance
4. Sorting Out the Tangle: Reflections on
International Development Assistance

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PIDE, Islamabad
Public Policy & Management: IDA
Module 1
What is Foreign Aid?
 History of foreign aid
 65 years of aid debate
 Aid modalities, conditionality and aid effectiveness
 Setting the global aid agenda
 Setting the domestic aid agenda

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PIDE, Islamabad
Public Policy & Management: IDA
Module 2
The Aid Delivery System
 The aid architecture
 The aid policy network: Actor analysis
 The aid policy network: Network analysis
 Managing aid interactions/policy process in a complex ai
d policy network
 Aid as leverage: Funding and resource allocation

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PIDE, Islamabad
Public Policy & Management: IDA
Module 3
Influence of International Development Assistance
 Does aid promote economic growth?
 Does aid help improve living standards?
 What is wrong with IDA, and why?
 Does aid influence recipient governments’ policies,
and how?
 Does aid undermine public sector capacity, and how?

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PIDE, Islamabad
Public Policy & Management: IDA
Module 4
Sorting Out the Tangle: Reflections on International Develo
pment Assistance
 Managing interactions:
Application of 4Cs in aid relationships
 Managing incentives
(for governments, societies, and donors)
 Managing state capacity
(bureaucratic competence and technical assistance)
 From aid dependence to self-reliance:
Case studies

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PIDE, Islamabad
Public Policy & Management: IDA
Recommended Readings
 MAVROTAS, G. (ed.) 2010. Foreign Aid and Development: Issues,
challenges, and the new agenda. UNU-WIDER: Oxford University Press.
 MAVROTAS, G. & MCGILLIVRAY, M. (eds.) 2009. Development aid:
A fresh look. UNU-WIDER: Palgrave Macmillan.
 SACHS, J. 2005b. The End of Poverty: Economic possibilities of our time.
London: Penguin Group.
 TARP, F. 2000. Foreign Aid and Development: Lessons Learnt and
Directions for the Future. London: Routledge.
 EASTERLY, W. 2006. The White Man's Burden: Why the West's efforts
to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good. New York:
Oxford University Press.