The Paper analyses (i) if globalization is undemocratic, (ii) if NGOs can fill a gap in representation and …

This paper studies the stability of coordination between mission-driven non-governmental organizations (NGOs) competing … for donations. We build a non-cooperative game-theoretic model of alliance formation between NGOs that compete through … is more likely, the steeper are NGOs’ (negatively sloped) best-reply functions. Under the aggregative rule, the …

proliferation of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) interacting with production and sourcing decisions of multinational firms. In … a complementarity between the growth of global value chains and the emergence of NGOs: for a range of trade costs … trade costs, would be better-off in a world without NGOs. In an extension we show that NGOs may also crowd out investment in …

Is competition for donations between development NGOs good for welfare? We address this question in a monopolistic … competition model à la Salop (1979). NGOs - defined by the non-distribution constraint - compete for donations from donors by … exerting fundraising effort. If the market size is fixed, the free-entry equilibrium number of NGOs is usually larger than the …

What are the effects of the integration of markets for private donations for development on NGOs’ performance? How is … donations with horizontally differentiated NGOs competing by fundraising effort. We compare three regimes: autarky, full … integration, and the regime of multinational NGOs (in which NGOs have to establish foreign affiliates to raise funds abroad). The …

female disempowerment are rooted in colonial times. We find that the arrival of Europeans in Uganda ignited a century … colonial period. But gender inequality gradually declined during the latter half of the colonial era, and after Uganda …

We study the effect of civil conflict on social capital, focusing on the experience of Uganda during the last decade …

the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial … sector. Finally, analysis of several repeated cross-sections of confidence within U.S. states yields similar qualitative …