Platteau, Jean-Philippe; Somville, Vincent; Wahhaj, Zaki - In: Journal of Development Economics 106 (2014) C, pp. 250-263
We investigate donor–beneficiary relationships in participatory development programmes, where (i) communities are heterogeneous and dominated by the local elite, (ii) the elite strategically proposes a project to the donor, knowing that the latter has imperfect knowledge of the needs of the...