Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/19812 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Kiel 2005 No. 19
Publisher: 
Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für Entwicklungsländer, Hannover
Abstract: 
The paper compares different aid policy instruments and their effect on the target group. Starting from a situation where interest groups compete for the resources of the government, international financial institutions aim to change the policy outcome. They can either directly support one group or condition their financial help to the government on its policy. Apart from a normative analysis which policy is more adequate to help one group, the paper also asks what happens if the IFI is driven by bureaucratic self-interest, and whether this distort policies.
Subjects: 
aid policy
conditionality
international financial institutions
interest groups
JEL: 
F35
O23
D73
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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