The Samaritan's Dilemma: The Political Economy of Development Aid

By C. Gibson, K. Andersson, Elinor Ostrom, S. Shivakumar. 2005

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Polycentric Systems as One Approach for Solving Collective-Action Problems (2008, background): “The results achieved have been grossly disappointing, for example solving local problems with the allocation of massive amounts of donor funds (Gibson et al. 2005).”
Determinants of Performance of Community-Based Drinking Water Organizations (2011, background): “The absence of a sense of ownership has been identified as one of the main reasons that donor-funded infrastructure projects fail (Gibson et al., 2005).”
Patronage or Participation? Community‐based Natural Resource Management Reform in Sub‐Saharan Africa (2008, background): “International donors seeking to promote CBNRM often cast institutional and political problems as technical ones, and often avoid the need to address underlying political economic barriers to change (Ferguson, 1994; Gibson et al., 2005).”
Challenges and growth: the development of the interdisciplinary field of institutional analysis (2007, background): “All of these arrangements are used by collective consumption units at a local, regional, national, or international level to arrange for the production of particular collective goods (Gibson et al., 2005).”
Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems (2010, unknown): “Extensive empirical research documents the diversity of settings in which individuals solve common-pool resource problems on their own, when these solutions are sustainable over long periods of time, and how larger institutional arrangements enhance or detract from the capabilities of individuals at”
Analyzing decentralized resource regimes from a polycentric perspective (2008, unknown): “Aggarwal and Dupont (1999), Gibson et al. (2005a) , Ostrom (2005), and Martin (1995).”
China & India as Africa's New Donors: The Impact of Aid on Development (2008, background): “Recipients often bypass conditions, and donors face a ‘Samaritan’s dilemma’ that withdrawing aid would create short-term pain for the very people they target to help (Gibson et al. 2005; Radelet, 2006).”
Aid with multiple personalities (2009, background): “Gibson et al (2005) argue that the presence of multiple donors increases the recipient government’s negotiation power.”
Understanding decentralized forest governance: an application of the institutional analysis and development framework (2006, background): “These are the most important independent variables in an institutional analysis because these rules influence the incentives that each actor faces and thus ultimately help determine behavior (for more on how rules-in-use relate to incentives, see Gibson et al. 2005; Ostrom, 2005).”
Reinventing Foreign Aid for Inclusive and Sustainable Development: Kuznets, Piketty and the Great Policy Reversal (2016, unknown): “…2004; Rajan & Subramanian, 2008; Heckelman & Knack, 2008) and; vested interest, coupled with poor planning and implementation (Easterly, 2002; Gibson et al., 2005; Dollar & Svensson, 2000). prosperity, aid is expected in principle to improve income distribution and hence, benefit the poor in…”