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Decentralized Aid and Democracy

hal.structure.identifierCenter of Research in the Economics of Development [CRED]
dc.contributor.authorMorales-Belpaire, Joaquín*
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-18T08:15:42Z
dc.date.available2018-09-18T08:15:42Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.urihttps://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/18031
dc.language.isoenen
dc.subjectDemocracyen
dc.subjectgovernanceen
dc.subjectNGOsen
dc.subjectnonprofitsen
dc.subjectforeign aiden
dc.subjecttaxationen
dc.subjectpublic goodsen
dc.subject.ddc338.9en
dc.subject.classificationjelD.D7.D72en
dc.subject.classificationjelH.H4.H44en
dc.subject.classificationjelL.L3.L31en
dc.subject.classificationjelL.L3.L33en
dc.subject.classificationjelO.O1.O19en
dc.titleDecentralized Aid and Democracyen
dc.typeDocument de travail / Working paper
dc.description.abstractenThe last three decades have seen an important surge of the non-governmental sector in the provision of foreign aid. Using NGOs to deliver aid can be a solution to bypass corrupt authorities, avoid- ing that aid resources are captured by local elites. However NGOs may also act as surrogates for governmental provision of public goods. This implies that citizens make their own governments less account- able. In democratic countries, this can reduce electoral support for provision of public services by the state and harm the poor that don't directly bene t from the NGOs' projects. We develop a theoretical model of vote over public nances to analytically characterise the ef- fect of decentralised aid on welfare. We nd that non-governmental aid can harm the poor, weaken governance and aggravate inequali- ties by crowding-out governmental expenditures. These ineciencies occur even in a  awless institutional context. We also nd that the crowding-out e ect can be mitigated if NGOs target countries with low income inequalities or by focusing on humanitarian-oriented missions.en
dc.identifier.citationpages38en
dc.relation.ispartofseriestitleNOPOOR Working Paperen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesnumber81en
dc.subject.ddclabelCroissance et développement économiquesen
dc.identifier.citationdate2013-09
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dc.description.audienceInternationalen
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