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Donor fragmentation and bureaucratic quality in aid recipients
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This paper analyzes the impact of donor fragmentation on the quality of government bureaucracy in aid-recipient nations. A formal model of a donor's decision to hire government administrators to manage donor-funded projects predicts that the number of administrators hired declines as the donor's share of other projects in the country increases, and as the donor's"altruism"(concern for the success of other donors'projects) increases. These hypotheses are supported by cross-country empirical tests using an index of bureaucratic quality available for aid-recipient nations over the 1982-2001 period. Declines in bureaucratic quality are associated with higher donor fragmentation (reflecting the presence of many donors, each with a small share of aid), and with smaller shares of aid coming from multilateral agencies, a proxy for donor"altruism."
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- Authors
- Knack, S., & Rahman, A.
- Venue
- Journal of Development Economics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2007-05
- Volume
- 83
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 176-197
- ISSN
- 0304-3878 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3124278138
- Cited by
- 466
- References
- 14
- FWCI
- 92.31
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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