Donor Competition for Aid Impact, and Aid Fragmentation /

This paper shows that donors that maximize relative aid impact spread their budgets across many recipient countries in a unique Nash equilibrium, explaining aid fragmentation. This equilibrium may be inefficient even without fixed costs, and the inefficiency increases in the equality of donors budge...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Annen, Kurt
Other Authors: Moers, Luc
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2012.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2012/204
Online Access:Full text available on IMF