Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/127353 
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Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper Series No. 539
Publisher: 
University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
Aid fragmentation and a lack of donor coordination have been widely recognized as principal problems impairing the effectiveness of aid. In particular, the importance of within-country division of labor has been highlighted in recent years. At the same time, rigorous quantitative analyses of within-country aid coordination are largely missing. Taking the whole donor pool(including NGOs) within an aid recipient country into account, we examine the coordination behavior of donors across regions and sectors. Our results indicate a modest degree of donor coordination within Cambodia, even after the 2005 Paris Declaration. In particular, the coordination efforts among bilateral donors seem rather limited, suggesting that their political and economic interests prevent closer coordination. With respect to the behavior of NGOs, we find them to be mainly active in the same regions and sectors as official donors, creating coordination problems between the two groups of donors. In addition, NGOs appear to cluster in the regional-sectoral space although there seems to be some sort of coordination among them.
Subjects: 
donor coordination
bilateral donors
multilateral donors
international NGOs
national NGOs
Cambodia
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Working Paper

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