Decentralizing Aid with Interested Parties
Gil Epstein and
Ira Gang
No RP2006-06, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)
Abstract:
This paper analyses the decentralization of decisionmaking in aid-giving in a theoretical rent-seeking framework. In this analysis the root donor establishes a necessary criterion for potential recipients: good governance. The potential recipients compete in hierarchal contests for funds. The paper investigates whether, under certain reasonable conditions, fashionable aid procedures will lead to the development of a poverty trap.
Keywords: Decision making; Economic assistance and foreign aid; Economic development; International agencies; Local government (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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