INTRODUCTION -- PART I: Overview and Strategic Outlook -- CHAPTER 1 The Need for New Paradigm -- CHAPTER 2 Complexity of IDAPs -- CHAPTER 3 Strategic Planning and Alignment -- CHAPTER 4 Program Design and Fundraising -- PART II: Core Elements of Managing IDAPs -- CHAPTER 5 Management of People...

"The Elgar Companion to The World Bank provides a comprehensive review of the past 80 years for this powerful development institution. Bringing together different theoretical approaches to studying the Bank from an expert group of scholars as well as insights from development practitioners, it...

The European Union, represented by the European Commission, is the world’s biggest aid donor. The primary objective of EU development policy is the eradication of global poverty, which includes the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The current EU aid architecture builds...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the structural factors responsible for why “donor darling” has not changed the pitfalls of stagnation and lifted post-conflict Sierra Leone out of poverty. Design/methodology/approach – The study adopts a bottom-up approach (“through...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the structural factors responsible for why “donor darling” has not changed the pitfalls of stagnation and lifted post‐conflict Sierra Leone out of poverty. Design/methodology/approach – The study adopts a bottom‐up approach...