Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/58442 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6221
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We develop a model of regulation of service-delivery NGOs, where future grants are conditional on prior spending of some minimal proportion of current revenue on direct project-related expenses. Such regulation induces some NGOs to increase current project spending, but imposes wasteful costs of compliance verification on all NGOs. Under a large class of parametric configurations, we find that regulation increases total discounted project expenditure over a regime of no regulation, when verification costs constitute no more than 15% of initial revenue. We characterize the optimal regulatory policy under these configurations. We apply our analysis to a large sample of NGOs from Uganda, and find regulation to be beneficial in that context.
Subjects: 
regulation of non-governmental organizations
developing countries
Uganda
JEL: 
G18
L31
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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