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Institutional Analysis of Development Administration: The Case of Japan's Bilateral Grant Aid and Technical Assistance (Contributions to Economics) - Tapa blanda

Foerster, Andreas

 
9783790808537: Institutional Analysis of Development Administration: The Case of Japan's Bilateral Grant Aid and Technical Assistance (Contributions to Economics)

Sinopsis

The book assesses the institutions of Japanese official development assistance (ODA). Based on an analysis of reasons for the deficiencies, possible solutions are discussed. They include a restructuring of new project management techniques.
A theoretical approach based on organisation theory (contingency theory) and new institutional economics (agency theory) has been used to structure the empirical research. The theories were further developed to enable operational working hypotheses for the empirical data. Through this theory-based approach, new insights are gained on the complex empirical phenomenon of Japanese development assistance administration. The combination of theoretical and empirical research also helped to develop theory itself.

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This study was conceived while I was a research assistant in the Department of Development Economics at the University of Heidelberg. The atmosphere there stimulated my interest in the increasing importance of the instimtional dimension of development administration. Since the smdy consists of both theoretical and empirical data, a large number of very different people have helped me to successfully complete the project. For the theoretical parts and the overall framework I am indebted to my advisor Prof. Bruno Knall, Dr. Hans Christoph Rieger, and my colleague Karl Ludwig Brockmann of the Department of Development Economics. I also want to express my gratimde to Bernhard Warkentin, Micheline Beaudry-Somcynsky, Dr. Kraft, Prof. Seifert, Prof. Rifkin, Prof. Liesegang, and Prof. Kieser, who offered useful advice on the overall framework of the smdy. For the empirical parts, I am also indebted to a large number of people in many different organizations. In particular may I express my gratimde to Mr. Kano and Mr. Sasaki of nCA. With their kind assistance I could stay two times as a visiting researcher in nCA and could survey several projects in Thailand. I am greatly indebted to the nCA office and the project personnel there. The frank comments about their activities was a very useful source of information.

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The book assesses the institutions of Japanese official development assistance (ODA). Based on an analysis of reasons for the deficiencies, possible solutions are discussed. They include a restructuring of new project management techniques. A theoretical approach based on organisation theory (contingency theory) and new institutional economics (agency theory) has been used to structure the empirical research. The theories were further developed to enable operational working hypotheses for the empirical data. Through this theory-based approach, new insights are gained on the complex empirical phenomenon of Japanese development assistance administration. The combination of theoretical and empirical research also helped to develop theory itself.

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