| Description |
1 online resource (393 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Conventions; Introduction; Challenges to Effecting Change; The PIJC Concept; Overview of PIJC in Developing and Transition Countries; Caveats and Contents; The PIJC Approach; Canonical Steps in a PIJC Application; Decomposition of the PIJC Mechanism; Types of PIJC Incentive Mechanisms; Monitoring and Evaluation in the PIJC Approach; A Framework to Assess PIJC Experience to Date; Selection and Organization of Case Studies; Review of Certification Experience; Simple Certification; Pecuniary Certification |
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Review of Tournament ExperiencePure Tournaments; Mixed Tournaments; Review of Other Relevant Experience; Synthesis and Analysis; Influence of PIJC Design Characteristics on Project Outcomes; Comparing the Effectiveness of Alternative Project Designs; Sustainability and Scalability of PIJC Applications; Role of Initial Conditions and Other Requirements for Successful PIJC Applications; Selecting the Appropriate Incentive Design; Conclusions and |
| Summary |
Why is foreign aid so often ineffective? Donors have slowly come to realize that the failure of foreign assistance is not rooted in insufficient funding, but is instead institutional in nature. On the one hand, local business owners are rarely involved in project design. On the other hand, without the ability to monitor and control the progress of interventions, donors face formidable challenges, such as unanticipated mistakes, malfeasance, and shirking. Answering the demand for foreign aid alternatives, Clifford Zinnes assesses a new class of "tournament" approaches that promise to improve on |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Economic assistance, American.
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Technical assistance, American.
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Letting of contracts -- United States
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Requests for proposals (Public contracts) -- United States
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Economic assistance, American
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Letting of contracts
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Requests for proposals (Public contracts)
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Technical assistance, American
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780815703778 |
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0815703775 |
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