national and the local level, and private organizations, both for-profit firms and nongovernment organizations (NGOs … enter into such partnerships, they appear to do so more with for-profit firms than with NGOs. A key lesson is to mobilize …

Apart from altruistic reasons, NGOs may engage in developing countries under conditions of conflict and war in order to …-in-difference-in-differences approach, we analyze empirically whether the presence of US-based NGOs in Afghanistan and Iraq improved their chances of … external funding. We find that NGOs being active in Afghanistan tended to benefit from easier access to official sources of …

. Using NGOs to deliver aid can be a solution to bypass corrupt authorities, avoiding that aid resources are captured by local … elites. However NGOs may also act as surrogates for governmental provision of public goods. This implies that citizens make … services by the state and harm the poor that don't directly benefit from the NGOs' projects. We develop a theoretical model of …

children. I discuss the strategies that members of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) used to achieve a greater presence in …