IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/unm/unumer/2015014.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Inside the Black Box: Contributions to the discussion on official development assistance

Author

Listed:
  • Freeman I.
  • Kool T.
  • Low C.
  • Salsal S.
  • Toczydlowska E.

    (UNU-MERIT)

Abstract

The effectiveness of Official Development Assistance is heavily debated. The emergence of new donors and the recent establishment of novel development actors, such as the BRICS-powered New Development Bank, will complement or substitute traditional financial flows and development cooperation. This transition in the geo-political landscape of development assistance presents an opportunity for traditional donors and recipients of ODA to reassess and possibly refine development cooperation, ultimately leading to improved ODA delivery and an opening of the black box of development assistance. Inside the Black Box presents ideas from future leaders and university students on how to best improve ODAs effectiveness despite the intertwined maze of aid ineffectiveness. Essays included in this compilation cover topics addressing transparency and accountability, the barrier between ODA workers and community members, cross-sector collaboration, under-reporting, procurement and issues underlying the levels of governance amongst others.

Suggested Citation

  • Freeman I. & Kool T. & Low C. & Salsal S. & Toczydlowska E., 2015. "Inside the Black Box: Contributions to the discussion on official development assistance," MERIT Working Papers 2015-014, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).
    • Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2015014
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2015/wp2015-014.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Development Planning and Policy; Institutions and Growth;

    JEL classification:

    • O20 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - General
    • O43 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Institutions and Growth

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2015014. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Ad Notten (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/meritnl.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.