What Do Nongovernmental Organizations Do

By E. Werker, Faisal Z. Ahmed. 2007

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Subfields: Public Administration, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• The Right Price of Food: Reflections on the Political Economy of Policy Analysis and Communication (2011, unknown): “17 14 For economic models of NGOs, see e.g. Aldashev and Verdier (2010), Andreoni and Payne (2001), Chau and Huysentruyt (2006); for an analyses of “what NGOs do”, see e.g. Werker and Ahmed (2008).”
• More Dollars than Sense: Refining Our Knowledge of Development Finance Using AidData (2011, background): “NGOs in particular have received a lot of attention as alternatives to governments (Tendler, 1982; Edwards & Hulme, 1996; Werker & Ahmed, 2008) because they are " unburdened with large bureaucracies, relatively flexible and open to innovation, more effective and faster at implementing development…”
• Funding, Competition and the Efficiency of NGOs: An Empirical Analysis of Non-charitable Expenditure of US NGOs Engaged in Foreign Aid (2012, background): “words, NGOs are subject to the so-called non-distribution constraint (Hansmann 1980; Werker and Ahmed 2008).”