Contests, NGOs, and Decentralizing Aid |
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Authors: | Gil S Epstein Ira N Gang |
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Institution: | Bar Ilan University, 52900 Ramat-Gan, Israel and IZA, Bonn. Tel: 972-52-8-550-407;E-mail: .; Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901-1248. Tel: 732-932-7405;Fax: 732-932-7416;E-mail: . |
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Abstract: | International donors usually have particular goals they want to achieve with their foreign aid, e.g., poverty alleviation. In the international aid story lobbying by potential recipient groups attempting to capture the donor's support plays a potentially important role for non‐governmental organizations. We model this situation as a hierarchical contest and compare the implications of a centralized allocation process with a decentralized allocation process with non‐governmental organizations as intermediaries. |
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