Journal Special Issue
Aid, Social Policy and Development

The UNU-WIDER Special Issue aims to address collectively the following questions:

(1) What are the principles and facts that have underpinned the evolution of bilateral and multilateral social sector aid over the past 25 years? In particular, how pro-poor has aid to the social sectors been?
(2) What policy tools, innovations and modalities have, or might be used, to improve the efficiency of aid to the social sectors? What role can emerging donors play in that process?
(3) What are the main challenges ahead to improve the efficacy of the aid architecture in the social sectors? Are these technical or administrative in nature, and/or political?

This Special Issue comes at a crucial time as the international development community moves on from the MDGs to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The debate on the role of social policy in the agenda is a very live one in the UN system, within the multilateral and bilateral agencies and, not least, within developing country governments and civil society more broadly.

This peer-reviewed research is available free of charge. UNU-WIDER believes that research is a global public good and supports Open Access.

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Tony Addison

Miguel Niño-Zarazúa

Finn Tarp

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November 2015

Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons Ltd,

Volume 27, Issue 8

1. Aid, social policy and development
Tony Addison, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, Finn Tarp
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2. The Progressivity and Regressivity of aid to the Social Sectors
Bob Baulch, Tam Vi An Le
More Working Paper | The Progressivity and Regressivity of Aid to the Social Sectors
3. Aid, Political Business Cycles and Growth in Africa
Blessing Chiripanhura, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa
More Working Paper | Aid, Political Business Cycles and Growth in Africa
4. Donor Coordination for Effective Government Policies?
Stefan Leiderer
More Working Paper | Donor Coordination for Effective Government Policies?
5. Brazilian South–South Development Cooperation: The Case of the Ministry of Social Development in Africa
Iara Leite, Melissa Pomeroy, Bianca Suyama
More Working Paper | Africa-Brazil Co-Operation in Social Protection
6. Innovative Delivery Mechanisms: Australian Aid Partnership with Churches in Papua New Guinea
Matthew Clarke
More Working Paper | Innovative Delivery Mechanisms for Increased Aid Budgets
7. Impact of Aid and Public Spending—A Macro–micro Framework
Jörgen Levin, Hans Löfgren, Sebastian Dessus
8. How to Assess the Effectiveness of Development Aid Projects: Evaluation Ratings versus Project Indicators
Laura Metzger, Isabel Günther
9. Targeting Social Transfer Programmes: Comparing Design and Implementation Errors Across Alternative Mechanisms
Rachel Sabates-Wheeler, Alex Hurrell, Stephen Devereux
More Working Paper | Targeting Social Transfer Programmes