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Political Economy Reasons for Government Inertia: The Role of Interest Groups in the Case of Access to Medicines

Börner, Kira - 2004

The reluctant reaction of western governments to the AIDS crisis in developing countries is only one example for policy areas where we observe a lack of political action despite a public interest in policy change. The reasons for that lie in the two-stage structure of the political...

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Public-Private Service Delivery Arrangements and Incentive Schemes in Developing Asia

Capuno, Joseph J. - 2014

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 …

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Civil society challenged: Towards an enabling policy environment

Anheier, Helmut K. - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 11 (2017) 2017-29, pp. 1-20

The roles of non-governmental or civil society organizations have become more complex, especially in the context of changing relationships with nation states and the international community. In many instances, state-civil society relations have worsened, leading experts to speak of a 'shrinking...

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The International Organization of Production in the Regulatory Void

Herkenhoff, Philipp; Krautheim, Sebastian - 2018

Over the last decades, the internationalization of the value chain has allowed firms to exploit cross-country differences in environmental and labor regulation (and enforcement) in ways that have led to a large number of NGO campaigns and consumer boycotts criticizing ‘unethical’ practices....

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Some reflections on the current situation in China

Heberer, Thomas - 2012

The paper examines recent political and social developments in the People's Republic of China. It highlights some of the principle features in current Chinese politics: fragmentation of both the system and its actors; the role of the Chinese state as a developmental state; the issue of whether...

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The Market for Policy Communication

Swinnen, Johan F. M.; Vandemoortele, Thijs; … - 2010

We develop a model of policy communication by aid agencies, NGOs and intergovernmental organizations and we show how …

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Charitable bequests and wealth at death

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Backus, Peter G.; Micklewright, John - 2012

Charitable bequests are a major source of income for charities but surprisingly little is known about them. The aim of this paper is to propose a multi-stage framework for analysing the bequest decision and to examine the evidence for Great Britain provided by new data on estates. The novelty of...

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Better performing NGOs do report more accurately: Evidence from investigating Ugandan NGO financial accounts

Burger, Ronelle; Dang, Canh Thien; Owens, Trudy - 2017

connection between the effectiveness of NGOs and their financial accountability. We use Benford's Law to assess accuracy of … financial reports by a sample of Ugandan NGOs. We find 25% of the sample provide financial information that may be inaccurate to … the true values. We find NGOs with better beneficiary ratings are more likely to submit credible financial data. This …

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What motivates Ugandan NGOs to diversify: Risk reduction or private gain?

Dang, Canh Thien; Owens, Trudy - 2017

to affected areas to examine how Ugandan NGOs change their diversification behaviour following the change in incentives …. Combining with our theoretical predictions, the result suggests that NGOs diversify mainly to reduce risks rather than to … stability for grassroots NGOs are highly recommended. …

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Book review: NGOization: Complicity, Contradictions and Prospects ed. by Aziz Choudry and Dip Kapoor

Klimczuk, Andrzej - In: Journal for the Study of Radicalism 9 (2015) 1, pp. 173-177

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