Donor fragmentation

Knack, Stephen and Rahman, Aminur (2008): Donor fragmentation. Published in: Reinventing Foreign Aid (2008): pp. 333-348.

Abstract

This chapter explains the incentives facing donors that lead them to fragment their foreign aid effortis over a large number of recipients, sectros, and projects. It summarizes cross-country evidence suggesting that fragmentation may reduce quality of the public administration in aid recipients, distort public expenditure allocations, and impair progress on public budgetary management reform efforts.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: foreign aid, public administration, collective action failures
• Subjects: D - Microeconomics > D7 - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making > D70 - General; F - International Economics > F3 - International Finance > F35 - Foreign Aid

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