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Díaz, A. C., Grant, E., Del Cid Vargas,Paula Irene, & Velásquez, V. S. (2001). The role of external agencies in the development of el mezquital in guatemala city. Environment & Urbanization, 13(1) 91-100. This paper describes and discusses…

Cohen, M. (2001). Urban assistance and the material world: Learning by doing at the world bank. Environment & Urbanization, 13(1) 37-60. This paper explores the contradictions between the ambition to establish a more effective framework fo…

Aid and urban development: Where are the views of the “Recipients”?(2001). Environment & Urbanization, 13(1) 3-9. Retrieved June 15, 2006, from the Urban Studies & Planning: A SAGE Full-Text Collection database.

Murshed, S. M. (2003). 'Strategic interaction, aid effectiveness and the formation of aid policies in donor nations'. Journal of Economic Development, 28(1): 189-203. This paper examines some of the issues associated with the aid donor pro…

OECD-DAC (2003). Harmonising donor practices for effective aid delivery: good practice papers. Paris: OECD Series: DAC guidelines and reference series isbn:9264199829 Girishankar, N. (1999).Reforming institutions for service delivery: a fr…

Dijkstra, G. (2005). 'The PRSP approach and the illusion of improved aid effectiveness: lessons from Bolivia, Honduras and Nicaragua'. Development Policy review, 23(4): 443-464. Mavrotas, G. (2005). 'Aid heterogeneity: looking at aid effec…

Budget Support and Aid Effectiveness: Experience in East Asia Arakawa, H. and J. Wakabayashi http://www.jbic.go.jp/english/research/report/review/pdf/report14_2.pdf

[Koeberle, S.][Jan, W.][Zoran, S.] Koeberle, S., W. Jan and S. Zoran, eds (2006). Budget Support as More Effective Aid?. Washington, DC: World Bank Publications. isbn:0821364634

[Carr, S.][McAuliffe, E.][MacLachlan, M.] Carr, S., E. McAuliffe and M. MacLachlan (1998). Psychology of Aid. London: Routledge. isbn:0415142075

[Esmail, T.][Manning, N.][Orac, J.][Schechter, G.] Esmail, T., N. Manning, J. Orac and G. Schechter (2004). 'Bottom-up administrative reform: Designing indicators for a Local Governance Scorecard in Nigeria'. Africa Region Working Paper Se…

[Gelb, A.][Ngo, B.][Ye, X.] Gelb, A., B. Ngo and X. Ye (2004). 'Implementing performance-based aid in Africa: The Country Policy and Institutional Assessment'. Africa Region Working Paper Series no. 77. Washington, DC: World Bank. About CP…

[Ellerman, D.] Ellerman D. (2002). 'Should development agencies have Official Views?'. Development in Practice 12(3/4): 285-297. The major development agencies have ex cathedra 'Official Views' (with varying degrees of explicitness) on the…

[Ellerman, D. P.] Ellerman, D. P. (1988). 'The Kantian Person/Thing Principle in Political Economy'. Journal of Economic Issues 22(4): 1109. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=577974&Fmt=7&clientId=44986&RQT=309&VName=PQD Normative ethical…

[Ellerman, D.] Ellerman, D. P. (1999). 'Global institutions: Transforming international development agencies into learning organizations'. The Academy of Management Executive 13(1): 25. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=39330106&Fmt=7&cli…

[Ellerman, D.][Denning, S.][Hanna, N.] Ellerman, D., S. Denning and N. Hanna (2001). 'Active learning and development assistance'. Journal of Knowledge Management 5(2): 171. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=242053341&Fmt=7&clientId=44986…

[Ellerman, D.] Ellerman, D. (2004). 'Autonomy-Respecting Assistance: Toward An Alternative Theory of Development Assistance'. Review of Social Economy 62(2): 149-168. http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=buh&an=13396355 The pu…

[Lehman, H.] Lehman, H. (2005). 'Japan's Foreign Aid Policy to Africa Since the Tokyo International Conference on African Development'. Pacific Affairs 78(3): 423 http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=982937691&Fmt=7&clientId=44986&RQT=309&VN…

[Vallee, O.][Vallee, S.] Vallee, O. and S. Vallee (2005). 'The poverty of economic policy: Is debt sustainability really sustainable?'. Journal of International Affairs 58(2): 177 http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=833053401&Fmt=7&clientId…

[Ellerman, D.] Ellerman, D. (2004). 'Revisiting Hirschman on development assistance and unbalanced growth'. Eastern Economic Journal 30(2): 311 http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=637969121&Fmt=7&clientId=44986&RQT=309&VName=PQD It is usefu…

[Barrett, C.] Barrett, C. B. (1998). 'Food aid: Is it development assistance, trade promotion, both, or neither?'. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 80(3): 566 http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=32615510&Fmt=7&clientId=44986&RQT=3…

[Mathews, J.] Mathews, J. T. (1997) 'Power shift'. Foreign Affairs 76(1): 50 http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=10735096&Fmt=7&clientId=44986&RQT=309&VName=PQD The end of the Cold War has brought about a novel redistribution of power among…

To link transaction costs and changes in trend of aid schemes To describe that transaction costs should incur in every single process involved in the Aid Chain To explore whether contractual relationships can contribute to reduction of tra…

Classification by type of contractual relationships Policies, Strategies (bilateral, multilateral, international, local) Measures to secure intended objectives How do governments of donor countries and those of recipients agree on the ways…

Currently identified characteristics and Incentive problems Bound by disbursement goals (Transfer of Money, not achievement of developmental objectives) "politics of acceptance" (Brooks and Bate 1994 in Hamlin, Reidy and Stewart 1997) Valu…

Nature of Aid (Gift Theory, Psychology of Aid, etc.) Aid is what those who have power are conducting. (Political) "Development" is not easy to be defined. (Context-dependent) Donor agencies are in the position to direct aid delivery.

[Schmidt, K.] Schmidt, K. (1994). 'The organization of cooperative work: Beyond the 'Liviathan' conception of the organization of cooperative work'. CSCW '94, 24-26 October 1994. Chapel Hill, North Carolina. http://portal.acm.org/citation.…

[Murrell, P.] Murrell, P. 'The interaction of donors, contractors and recipients in aid projects: improving the effectiveness of contracting and project evaluation'. Working Paper no. 237, Centre for Institutional Reform and the Informal S…

[Easterly, W.] Easterly, W. (2003). 'Can Foreign Aid Buy Growth?'. Journal of Economic Perspectives 17(3): 23-48. Examines economic research on the effectiveness of foreign aid in influencing economic growth. Empirical evidence on the link…

[Easterly, W.] Easterly, W. (2002). 'The Cartel of Good Intentions: The Problem of Bureaucracy in Foreign Aid'. Journal of Policy Reform 5(4): 223-250. Well-meaning national and international bureaucracies dispense foreign aid under condit…