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  title info:
    title: Aid in Transition
    sub title: EU Development Cooperation with Russia and Eurasia
  name:
    name part: Grigoriadis, Theocharis N.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 103 p. 30 illus., 27 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book is the one of the first—if not the first one—to address aid effectiveness from a comparative economics perspective. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the transition of its republics to market structures and representative forms of government, the European Commission had recognized the necessity of a closer economic cooperation with Russia and Eurasia. EU development aid provided a set of reform incentives to post-Soviet planners. It created the grounds for the institutional transformation of central and regional bureaucracies by integrating them into the aid delivery process. In the former Soviet Union, the subordination of civil society to the developmental choices of recipient bureaucracies occurred at the expense of diversity and political openness. Nevertheless, it led to the emergence of transnational sovereignty partnerships (TSPs) between recipient bureaucracies and donor-financed NGOs or business consortia. Multiple definitions of aid effectiveness are provided in the course of the book chapters. Those include the soft budget constraint, contractual completeness under imperfect monitoring, optimization of donor policy preferences, and ex-post evaluation of aid programs. The effectiveness of development aid is contested. Here Theocharis Grigoriadis provides a careful new analysis of aid to Russia and Eurasia following the collapse of the Soviet Bloc that sheds light on both its politics and economics. Must reading for anyone who wishes to think hard about development aid. — Barry Eichengreen, George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. Aid in Transition: EU Development Cooperation with Russia and Eurasia provides a wealth of analysis and knowledge for scholars and policy-makers seeking to understand the role of EU assistance to the European and Eurasian transition economies. The author finds that strong institutions of civil society complement aid effectiveness by co…
  table 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.
  note: by Theocharis N. Grigoriadis.
  subject:
    topic: International relations
  subject:
    topic: International economics
  subject:
    topic: Development economics
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  subject:
    topic: International Economics
  subject:
    topic: International Relations
  subject:
    topic: Development Economics
  classification: HF1351-1647
  classification: 337
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      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9781461465829
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6582-9
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    record change date: 20151204151639.0
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