Location Decisions and Nongovernmental Organization Motivation : Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) play an increasingly important role in development assistance, but little systematic evidence is available about their objectives and choices in developing countries. The authors develop two stylized accounts of...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/12/2872827/location-decisions-nongovernmental-organization-motivation-evidence-rural-bangladesh http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17342 |
| Summary: | Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)
play an increasingly important role in development
assistance, but little systematic evidence is available
about their objectives and choices in developing countries.
The authors develop two stylized accounts of NGO motivation:
one in which donor contracts determine location decisions,
and another in which altruistic motivations are the
principal determinants. The authors then use data from the
1995 and 2000 rounds of the Bangladesh Households and Income
and Expenditure Survey to analyze location decisions of NGO
programs established between those two sample years. The
data show that net change in a community's NGO program
was unrelated to the community's need and that NGOs
were ready to establish new programs in new areas without
being concerned of duplicating the efforts of other NGOs.
The findings suggest that contracts with donors, implicit or
explicit, probably play a crucial role in determining the
incentives that affect NGO program location choices. |
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