What Makes Aid Effective? with Pablo Yanguas and Daniel Honig
| Dates: | 10 May 2018 |
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| Times: | 15:00 - 16:30 |
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| What is it: | Lecture |
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| Organiser: | Global Development Institute |
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| How much: | Free |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public |
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| Speaker: | Pablo Yanguas, Dan Honig |
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In conversation with Pablo Yanguas and Daniel Honig
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What limits the impact of foreign aid programmes? If frontline workers had freedom to experiment could aid effectiveness be improved? What in the aid bureaucracy and political environment constrains flexibility?
Prof David Hulme & Nicola Banks lead this exciting discussion with ESID’s Pablo Yanguas, author of new book 'Why we lie about aid' and Daniel Honig of Johns Hopkins University, author of new book 'Navigation by judgement: why and when top down management of foreign aid doesn’t work'.
The Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre is a global partnership investigating the kinds of politics that promote development. Funded by DFID, our research spans 16 countries and we have research partners in Bangladesh, Ghana, India, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda and the USA. ESID is deepening the understanding of governance in the developing world in ways that impact on policy and practice so that people’s lives and livelihoods are improved. We are helmed at the Global Development Institute, Europe’s largest global poverty and inequality institute.
The Global Development Institute is the largest dedicated development research and teaching institute in Europe, led jointly by Professors Diana Mitlin and David Hulme. The results of the most recent Research Excellence Framework ranked GDI first for impact ranking in Development Studies in the UK, with many of our researchers deemed to be 'world leading'.
Speakers
Pablo Yanguas
Role: Research Associate
Organisation: Global Development Institute
Biography: Pablo Yanguas is a Research Fellow at the Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre and Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, as well as an international development consultant. He received his PhD in Government from Cornell University after studying History and Archaeology at the University of Seville. His research centres on the political economy of foreign aid, the politics of development policy, and public sector reform, and has appeared in academic journals like World Development, Development Policy Review, Third World Quarterly and Journal of International Development. As an advisor he specializes on politically-smart and adaptive foreign aid, with a focus on anti-corruption programming.
Dan Honig
Role: Assistant Professor
Organisation: John Hopkins
Biography: Dan Honig is Assistant Professor of International Development and an affiliate of the International Political Economy program. Prof. Honig's research focuses on the relationship between organizational structure, management practice, and performance in developing country governments and organizations that provide foreign aid. His new book (Navigation by Judgment: Why and When Top-Down Control of Foreign Aid Doesn’t Work) examines the optimal level of autonomy in foreign aid intervention delivery and the role political authorizing environments and measurement regimes play in circumscribing that autonomy.
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