The Future of Development Financing - Challenges and Strategic Choices
By Francisco Sagasti, Keith Bezanson, Fernando Prada

Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Number Of Pages:   255
Publication Date:   2005
ISBN-10 / ASIN:   1403949514
ISBN-13 / EAN:   9781403949516

Contents
List of Tables,Figures and Boxes vii
List of Acronyms ix
Preface xiii
1 The Inheritance:Evolution of the International
Development System and of Development Financing 1
1.1 The evolution of the concept of development 1
1.2 Institutional changes in the international
development system 4
1.3 The evolution of development financing
mechanisms 9
1.4 Main defining characteristics of the international
development system at the end of the twentieth
century 17
2 Attempted Change:Recent Attemps to Transform the
International Development Financing Architecture 22
2.1 Reforms in the United Nations 24
2.2 Reform of the International financial institutions 27
2.3 Reforms and recent developments in bilateral
agencies 34
2.4 The EU aid reforms 40
2.5 Emerging initiatives in development financing 44
2.6 Major opportunities and threats for the future of
international development financing 47
3 Building Scenarios for International Development
Finance 50
3.1 Introduction 50
3.2 Institutional arrangements 57
3.3 Financing instruments 66
3.4 Capacity to mobilize financial resources 90
3.5 International political economy and political
viability 100
v4 The Shape of Things to Come:Scenarios and Their
Policy Implications 117
4.1 Interactions between the scenario components 117
4.2 Scenarios for the international development
financing system 118
4.3 A framework for strategic choices 150
5 Concluding Remarks:Strategy,Commitment and
Prospects 179
5.1 Strategic options:taking stock and moving
forward 181
5.2 The way forward:radical incrementalism 188
Notes and References 190
Bibliography 199
Annex A:Development Financing 2000 Reports 211
Annex B:Country Classification Scheme:Approach,Methodology
and Results 221
Index 233