Nunnenkamp, Peter (contributor); Thiele, Rainer (contributor) - 2009
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are widely expected to provide better targeted aid than state agencies with a … hidden agenda of commercial and political self-interest. However, principal-agent models question that NGOs decide … autonomously on aid allocation. Indeed, we show empirically that NGO aid offers no panacea: The focus of NGOs on the neediest …