Aid Agency Competition : A Century of Entry, But No Exit
Critics of the aid industry have accused it of acting like a cartel (Easterly 2002). The accusation has some bite-globally the industry remains somewhat concentrated, and for the typical recipient country, highly concentrated. Yet the most striking...
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| Format: | Viewpoint |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/10/5528860/aid-agency-competition http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11251 |
| Summary: | Critics of the aid industry have accused
it of acting like a cartel (Easterly 2002). The accusation
has some bite-globally the industry remains somewhat
concentrated, and for the typical recipient country, highly
concentrated. Yet the most striking fact about the industry
is how relentlessly competitive pressures are building.
There has been a constant stream of new entrants, a steady
fall in global and local concentration, and a clear tendency
for donors to break out of historical patterns of aid and
compete with one another. Could greater competition improve
the efficiency of the aid system? |
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