Proliferation and fragmentation: Transactions costs and the value of aid

By A. Acharya, A. T. F. de Lima, M. Moore. 2006

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Subfields: Development, Information Systems, Safety Research

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In Development

1. Simeon Djankov
2. Marta Reynal-Querol
3. Jose G. Montalvo
4. E. Mawdsley
5. P. Kragelund
6. M. Moore
7. Peter Nunnenkamp
8. Hannes Öhler

In Information Systems

1. Simeon Djankov
2. Marta Reynal-Querol
3. Jose G. Montalvo
4. P. Kragelund
5. M. Moore
6. Peter Nunnenkamp
7. Hannes Öhler
8. Markus Brückner

In Safety Research

1. E. Mawdsley
2. P. Kragelund
3. Marta Reynal-Querol
4. M. Moore
5. Peter Nunnenkamp
6. Jose G. Montalvo
7. Hannes Öhler
8. Simeon Djankov

Citations in the corpus

• How Does Taxation Affect the Quality of Governance (2007, background): “Strategic motivations have diminished since the end of the Cold War;16 the number of aid donors and aid channels has proliferated (Acharya et al. 2006; World Bank 2004: 206–7); and aid has increasingly been concentrated on the poorer countries.”
• Aid with multiple personalities (2009, background): “Acharya et al. (2006) argues that the “immediate consequence of the proliferation of donor organizations is a very large increase in the transactions costs incurred by agencies of recipient governments in their engagements with aid donors.”
• The Return of Non‐DAC Donors to Africa: New Prospects for African Development? (2008, background): “…indirect (for instance, related to the unexpectedness of aid, or to the derived effects of aid) and relate to donors as well as recipients, implementing agencies as well as headquarters, and central ministries as well as direct beneficiaries (Acharya et al., 2006; Andersen and Therkildsen, 2007).”
• Funding, Competition and the Efficiency of NGOs: An Empirical Analysis of Non-charitable Expenditure of US NGOs Engaged in Foreign Aid (2012, background): “Proliferation and fragmentation are widely feared to impair the effectiveness of aid by imposing high transaction costs on the recipient countries (e.g., Acharya et al. 2006).”
• A ‘post‐aid world'? Paradigm shift in foreign aid and development cooperation at the 2011 Busan High Level Forum (2014, background): “Second, there has been an extraordinary explosion in the number of state and non-state aid actors and programmes (Acharya et al. 2006; Kharas 2007; Worthington and Pipa 2011).”