Dr. Faheem Jehangir Khan
Research Economist, PIDE
faheemjkhan@pide.org.pk
Public Policy & Management:
Int’l Development Assistance
Course Outline
FJK | 2016
PIDE, Islamabad
Public Policy & Management: IDA
Modules
1. What is Foreign Aid?
2. The Aid Delivery System
3. Influence of International Development
Assistance
4. Sorting Out the Tangle: Reflections on
International Development Assistance
FJK | 2016
PIDE, Islamabad
Public Policy & Management: IDA
Module 1
What is Foreign Aid?
 History of foreign aid
 65 years of aid debate
 Aid modalities, conditionality and aid effectiveness
 Setting the global aid agenda
 Setting the domestic aid agenda
FJK | 2016
PIDE, Islamabad
Public Policy & Management: IDA
Module 2
The Aid Delivery System
 The aid architecture
 The aid policy network: Actor analysis
 The aid policy network: Network analysis
 Managing aid interactions/policy process in a complex ai
d policy network
 Aid as leverage: Funding and resource allocation
FJK | 2016
PIDE, Islamabad
Public Policy & Management: IDA
Module 3
Influence of International Development Assistance
 Does aid promote economic growth?
 Does aid help improve living standards?
 What is wrong with IDA, and why?
 Does aid influence recipient governments’ policies,
and how?
 Does aid undermine public sector capacity, and how?
FJK | 2016
PIDE, Islamabad
Public Policy & Management: IDA
Module 4
Sorting Out the Tangle: Reflections on International Develo
pment Assistance
 Managing interactions:
Application of 4Cs in aid relationships
 Managing incentives
(for governments, societies, and donors)
 Managing state capacity
(bureaucratic competence and technical assistance)
 From aid dependence to self-reliance:
Case studies
FJK | 2016
PIDE, Islamabad
Public Policy & Management: IDA
Recommended Readings
 MAVROTAS, G. (ed.) 2010. Foreign Aid and Development: Issues,
challenges, and the new agenda. UNU-WIDER: Oxford University Press.
 MAVROTAS, G. & MCGILLIVRAY, M. (eds.) 2009. Development aid:
A fresh look. UNU-WIDER: Palgrave Macmillan.
 SACHS, J. 2005b. The End of Poverty: Economic possibilities of our time.
London: Penguin Group.
 TARP, F. 2000. Foreign Aid and Development: Lessons Learnt and
Directions for the Future. London: Routledge.
 EASTERLY, W. 2006. The White Man's Burden: Why the West's efforts
to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good. New York:
Oxford University Press.

Public Policy & Management: Int’l Development Assistance

  • 1.
    Dr. Faheem JehangirKhan Research Economist, PIDE faheemjkhan@pide.org.pk Public Policy & Management: Int’l Development Assistance Course Outline
  • 2.
    FJK | 2016 PIDE,Islamabad Public Policy & Management: IDA Modules 1. What is Foreign Aid? 2. The Aid Delivery System 3. Influence of International Development Assistance 4. Sorting Out the Tangle: Reflections on International Development Assistance
  • 3.
    FJK | 2016 PIDE,Islamabad Public Policy & Management: IDA Module 1 What is Foreign Aid?  History of foreign aid  65 years of aid debate  Aid modalities, conditionality and aid effectiveness  Setting the global aid agenda  Setting the domestic aid agenda
  • 4.
    FJK | 2016 PIDE,Islamabad Public Policy & Management: IDA Module 2 The Aid Delivery System  The aid architecture  The aid policy network: Actor analysis  The aid policy network: Network analysis  Managing aid interactions/policy process in a complex ai d policy network  Aid as leverage: Funding and resource allocation
  • 5.
    FJK | 2016 PIDE,Islamabad Public Policy & Management: IDA Module 3 Influence of International Development Assistance  Does aid promote economic growth?  Does aid help improve living standards?  What is wrong with IDA, and why?  Does aid influence recipient governments’ policies, and how?  Does aid undermine public sector capacity, and how?
  • 6.
    FJK | 2016 PIDE,Islamabad Public Policy & Management: IDA Module 4 Sorting Out the Tangle: Reflections on International Develo pment Assistance  Managing interactions: Application of 4Cs in aid relationships  Managing incentives (for governments, societies, and donors)  Managing state capacity (bureaucratic competence and technical assistance)  From aid dependence to self-reliance: Case studies
  • 7.
    FJK | 2016 PIDE,Islamabad Public Policy & Management: IDA Recommended Readings  MAVROTAS, G. (ed.) 2010. Foreign Aid and Development: Issues, challenges, and the new agenda. UNU-WIDER: Oxford University Press.  MAVROTAS, G. & MCGILLIVRAY, M. (eds.) 2009. Development aid: A fresh look. UNU-WIDER: Palgrave Macmillan.  SACHS, J. 2005b. The End of Poverty: Economic possibilities of our time. London: Penguin Group.  TARP, F. 2000. Foreign Aid and Development: Lessons Learnt and Directions for the Future. London: Routledge.  EASTERLY, W. 2006. The White Man's Burden: Why the West's efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good. New York: Oxford University Press.