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999			_c25507 _d25507
020			_a9780190467456
082			_a332.153 _bBUN-G
100			_aBuntaine, Mark T
245			_aGiving Aid Effectively _b: the politics of environmental performance and selectivity at multilateral development banks
260			_aNew York _bOxford University Press _c2016
300			_aix, 291p.
504			_aInclude Reference and Index
520			_aInternational 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.
650			_aFinancial Economics _vEconomic development projects-Developing countries _vEnvironmental aspects--Developing countries _vEnvironmental policy--Economic aspects--Developing countries
942			_2ddc _cBK