Institutional Analysis of Development Administration : The Case of Japan’s Bilateral Grant Aid and Technical Assistance

The book assesses the institutions of Japanese official development assistance (ODA). Based on an analysis of reasons for the deficiencies, possible solutions are discussed. They include a restructuring of new project management techniques. A theoretical approach based on organisation theory (contingency theory) and new institutional economics (agency theory) has been used to structure the empirical research. The theories were further developed to enable operational working hypotheses for the empirical data. Through this theory-based approach, new insights are gained on the complex empirical phenomenon of Japanese development assistance administration. The combination of theoretical and empirical research also helped to develop theory itself