TY  - BOOK
AU  - Buntaine, Mark T
TI  - Giving Aid Effectively: : the politics of environmental performance and selectivity at multilateral development banks
SN  - 9780190467456
U1  - 332.153 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Financial Economics
KW  - Economic development projects-Developing countries
KW  - Environmental aspects--Developing countries
KW  - Environmental policy--Economic aspects--Developing countries
N1  - Include Reference and Index
N2  - 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. Giving Aid Effectively provides a systematic examination of whether these efforts have succeeded in aligning allocation decisions with performance
ER  -