1. Water challenge : an institutional diagnosis -- 2. Understanding institutions : nature, performance, and change -- 3. Existing literature : approaches, attempts, and limitations -- 4. Evaluating institutional linkages : towards an alternative methodology -- 5. Analytical framework and...

The "world social welfare" approach is rejected, and the political economy approach is adopted to analyze the international resource trasnfer of activity of the World Bank. Four types of behaviour implying distinct incentive structures are the theoretically derived and econometrically tested....