Aid in Transition - EU Development Cooperation with Russia and Eurasia

This book is the one of the first to address aid effectiveness as a political and comparative economics question. Using the case of European Union aid in the post-Soviet transition, it shows why formal modeling and analysis of qualitative data are useful.

List of contents

Aid Effectiveness and Donor Preferences.- Aid Effectiveness and the Soft Budget Constraint.- The TACIS Program in Russia, Ukraine and Central Asia, 1992-2007.- Europe, Russia and Global Development.

Summary

Evaluation reports indicate the problems and challenges faced by aid bureaucrats and suggest that the weakly institutionalized environments of Ukraine and Central Asia/Kazakhstan are less conducive to aid effectiveness than the heavily bureaucratized environment of Russia.

Product details

• Authors: Theocharis N Grigoriadis, Theocharis N. Grigoriadis
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2014
• EAN: 9781461465812
• ISBN: 978-1-4614-6581-2
• No. of pages: 103
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 12 mm x 241 mm
• Weight: 319 g
• Illustrations: XVI, 103 p. 30 illus., 27 illus. in color.
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > International economy