| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP14537 |
| DP14537 How Political Insiders Lose Out When International Aid Underperforms: Evidence from a Participatory Development Experiment in Ghana | |
| Katharine Baldwin; Dean Karlan; Christopher Udry; Ernest Appiah | |
| 发表日期 | 2020-03-27 |
| 出版年 | 2020 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Participatory development is designed to mitigate problems of political bias in pre-existing local government but also interacts with it in complex ways. Using a five-year randomized controlled study in 97 clusters of villages (194 villages) in Ghana, we analyze the effects of a major participatory development program on participation in, leadership of and investment by preexisting political institutions, and on households’ overall socioeconomic well-being. Applying theoretical insights on political participation and redistributive politics, we consider the possibility of both cross-institutional mobilization and displacement, and heterogeneous effects by partisanship. We find the government and its political supporters acted with high expectations for the participatory approach: treatment led to increased participation in local governance and reallocation of resources. But the results did not meet expectations, resulting in a worsening of socioeconomic wellbeing in treatment versus control villages for government supporters. This demonstrates international aid’s complex distributional consequences. |
| 主题 | Development Economics |
| 关键词 | Participatory development Political economy International aid Distributive politics |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp14537 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/543442 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Katharine Baldwin,Dean Karlan,Christopher Udry,et al. DP14537 How Political Insiders Lose Out When International Aid Underperforms: Evidence from a Participatory Development Experiment in Ghana. 2020. |
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