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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449951103321

Autore

Martens Bertin

Titolo

The institutional economics of foreign aid / / Bertin Martens [and others] ; with a foreword by Elinor Ostrom [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002

ISBN

1-107-12466-2

1-280-15950-2

0-511-11989-5

0-511-04192-6

0-511-15719-3

0-511-32553-3

0-511-49256-1

0-511-04456-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 201 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

338.91

Soggetti

Economic assistance

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Conflicts of objectives and task allocation in aid agencies / Paul Seabright -- The interaction of donors, contractors and recipients / Peter Murrell -- Embedding externally induced institutional reform / Uwe Mummert -- The role of evaluation in foreign aid programmes / Bertin Martens -- Some policy conclusions regarding organizations involved in foreign aid / Bertin Martens.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is about the institutions, incentives and constraints that guide the behaviour of people and organizations involved in the implementation of foreign aid programmes. While traditional performance studies tend to focus almost exclusively on the policies and institutions in recipient countries, this book looks at incentives in the entire chain of organizations involved in the delivery of foreign aid, from donor governments and agencies to consultants, experts and other intermediaries. Four aspects of foreign aid delivery are examined in detail: incentives inside donor agencies, the interaction of subcontractors with recipient organizations, incentives inside recipient



country institutions, and biases in aid performance monitoring systems.