Project Aid or Budget Aid? The Interests of Governments and Financial Institutions

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The paper compares different aid policy instruments and their effect on the target group. Starting from a situation where interest groups compete for the resources of the government, international financial institutions aim to change the policy outcome. They can either directly support one group or condition their financial help to the government on its policy. Apart from a normative analysis which policy is more adequate to help one group, the paper also asks what happens if the IFI is driven by bureaucratic self-interest, and whether this distort policies.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Kiel 2005 ; No. 19

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Foreign Aid ; Fiscal and Monetary Policy in Development ; Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
• Subject: aid policy ; conditionality ; international financial institutions ; interest groups

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Hefeker, Carsten
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für Entwicklungsländer
• (where): Hannover
• (when): 2005

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19812
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET