This paper analyzes whether and to what extent non-governmental organizations (NGOs) outperform official donors by allocating aid in a way that renders effective poverty alleviation more likely. We employ Probit and Tobit models and make use of an exceptionally detailed database that allows an...

Poverty remains one of the greatest problems of our time, causing starvation and humiliation in poor countries and contributing to problems of conflict, migration and environmental degradation effecting also richer countries. This study provides a systematical analysis of today's donor...

Das vorliegende Buch leistet einen Beitrag zur internationalen Partizipationsforschung. Es setzt sich mit dem entsprechenden entwicklungspolitischen Diskurs auseinander und untersucht am Beispiel der zentralasiatischen Republiken Kirgistan und Tadschikistan die Angemessenheit und Anwendbarkeit...