These are key documents providing background information and details of the priorities and strategies of the Irish government's development cooperation agency, Irish Aid, in the four countries where IAP partner universities are situated: Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda.

1. African country background papers [inline:African Country Background Posters (1).pps] [698.5 KB]

2. Irish Aid country priorities [inline:Irish Aid Country Priorities (1).pps] [204 KB]

3. Irish Aid strategies for development [inline:Irish Aid Development Strategies(2).pps] [184 KB]

4. African national policy objectives [inline:African National Policy Objectives (1).pps] [192.5kb]

International Development Comprehensive Reading List

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Burnside, Craig and David Dollar. 2000. “Aid, Policies and Growth.” The American Economic Review. 90(4):847-868. (23)

World Bank. 1998. Assessing Aid: What Works, What Doesn’t, and Why. Washington, D.C.: Oxford University Press.

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Killick, Tony with Ramani Gunatilaka and Ana Marr. 1998. Aid and the political economy of policy change. London ; New York : Routledge.

Easterly, William. 2003. “Can Foreign Aid Buy Growth?” The Journal of Economic Perspectives 17(3):23-48.

Van Rooy, Alison (ed). 2000. Civil Society and the Aid Industry. London: Earthscan Publications, Ltd.

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De Renzio, Paolo. 2006. “Aid, Budgets and Accountability: A Survey Article.” Development Policy Review 24(6): 627-645.

William R. Easterly, 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: Penguin Press, 2006), chapters 1-2, p. 3-55.