The controversy surrounding the effectiveness or counter-productivity of foreign aid is one of the great issues facing the world today. The first edition arose from a study conducted by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, concerning the effectiveness of aid. Now in this thoroughly revised and updated second edition, Robert Cassen incorporates the research and debate in this area since 1986. He has updated the text and tables, added a section to each chapter reviewing recent findings, and removed some of the highly technical parts of the text, making this edition accessible to...
The controversy surrounding the effectiveness or counter-productivity of foreign aid is one of the great issues facing the world today. The first edit...
This book is the culmination of a large research project led by a distinguished team of researchers. It explores the links between population growth and economic development in India, with particular reference to issues of the environment and human development. On present trends India is set to become the world's largest population, and this book seeks to give a general account of India's future under this expected growth, and derive policy conclusions from analysis of this account.
This book is the culmination of a large research project led by a distinguished team of researchers. It explores the links between population growth a...
The first study of India's development giving a fully integrated account of population and development, built on new projections of the population for fifty years from the Census of 2001. In twenty-five years India's population will exceed 1.4 billion, and will almost certainly pass 1.5 billion by mid-century. The implications of this population growth are then traced out in a range of modelling and analytical work.
The first study of India's development giving a fully integrated account of population and development, built on new projections of the population for...
What is working in education in the UK - and what isn't? This book offers a highly readable guide to what the latest research says about improving young people's outcomes in pre-school, primary and secondary education. Never has this issue been more topical as the UK attempts to compete in the global economy against countries with increasingly educated and skilled work-forces. The book discusses whether education policy has really been guided by the evidence, and explores why the failings of Britain's educational system have been so resistant to change, as well as the success stories that...
What is working in education in the UK - and what isn't? This book offers a highly readable guide to what the latest research says about improving ...
What is working in education in the UK - and what isn't? This book offers a highly readable guide to what the latest research says about improving young people's outcomes in pre-school, primary and secondary education. Never has this issue been more topical as the UK attempts to compete in the global economy against countries with increasingly educated and skilled work-forces. The book discusses whether education policy has really been guided by the evidence, and explores why the failings of Britain's educational system have been so resistant to change, as well as the success stories that...
What is working in education in the UK - and what isn't? This book offers a highly readable guide to what the latest research says about improving ...
