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Control and efficiency in the nonprofit sector evidence from a randomized policy experiment

Bengtsson, Niklas; Engström, Per - 2011

crowding out of private contributions and no evidence of a "discouraged NGO"-syndrome. -- Bureaucrats ; NGO ; Economics of …-oriented rather than self-interested. We test this prediction on a sample of nonprofit organizations in Sweden. Swedish nonprofit …

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Improving development effectiveness through R&D : dynamic learning and evaluation

Fiala, Nathan; Mangan, Cormac - 2013

, organizations randomly apply multiple implementation designs and test them against each other using qualitative and administrative …

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Enabling civil society for sustainable development : select survey findings

Wood, Jacqueline; Fällman, Karin - 2019

Civil society and civil society organisations (CSOs) are important to development co-operation, both as implementing partners for members of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC), and as development actors in their own right. Agenda 2030 is clear on the necessity of mobilising CSOs to...

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Congregational Aid : North American Protestant Engagement in International Relief and Development

Lynn, Monty L. - 2016

A review of large North American Protestant congregations (n = 423) engaging in global relief and development, or ‘holistic mission’ (HM), suggests that half engage in HM activities per year, with the majority of those activities focused on human and physical sectors. Most activities are led...

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Factors That Determine the Fees for Audit NGOs Financial Statements in Kosovo

Berisha, Bahtijar - 2016

known in economic literature on this issue. In our study, we have chosen the NGO sector in Kosovo to investigate the factors … the model, it was found that the size, complexity, audit risk, NGO audit market, competition, international character and …

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Optimal Fiscal Spending and Reserve Accumulation Policies Under Volatile Aid

Moldovan, Ioana R. - 2019

This paper assesses the optimal setting of fiscal spending and foreign exchange rate intervention policies in response to volatile foreign aid, in a small open economy model that incorporates typical features of low-income countries. Within a class of policy rules, it jointly considers the...

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Nudging the electorate : what works and why?

Kölle, Felix; Lane, Tom; Nosenzo, Daniele; Starmer, Chris - 2017

Policymakers are increasingly interested these days in how they can achieve desired outcomes using 'nudges' - low-cost and non-obtrusive interventions which rely on psychological mechanisms, rather than high-powered economic incentives, to influence people's behaviour. This paper applies the...

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You are in charge : experimentally testing the motivating power of holding a judicial office

Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2016

follows from the desire to fulfill the expectations that come with the assigned task. We test three extensions: When given an …

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NGOs and the effectiveness of interventions

Usmani, Faraz; Jeuland, Marc; Pattanayak, Subhrendu - 2018

effectiveness. To test our model's predictions, we create a sample of observationally similar Indian villages that differ in their … prior engagement with a local development NGO. In partnership with this NGO, we then stratify a randomized technology … promotion intervention on this institutional variable. We uncover a large, positive, and statistically significant "NGO effect …

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The Elusive Quest for the Golden Standard : Concepts, Policies and Practices of Accountability in Development Cooperation

Speijcken, Renée; Bakker, Wieger - 2011

Promoting public accountability plays an ever increasing role in the recent discourse on development cooperation. It is said to encourage a more efficient use of public funds, to decrease corruption, add to more legitimate, responsive and democratic institutions including government and...

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