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Breakdown in Pakistan: How Aid Is Eroding Institutions for Collective Action
Masooda Bano
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Description for Breakdown in Pakistan: How Aid Is Eroding Institutions for Collective Action
Hardback. This book draws on rich ethnographic and survey data from Pakistan to present a systematic analysis of why individuals come together to produce collectively desirable goods, and why aid often breaks down traditional institutions for collective action. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JKSN1; KCL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 452.
Thirty percent of foreign development aid is channeled through NGOs or community-based organizations to improve service delivery to the poor, build social capital, and establish democracy in developing nations. However, growing evidence suggests that aid often erodes, rather than promotes, cooperation within developing nations. This book presents a rare, micro level account of the complex decision-making processes that bring individuals together to form collective-action platforms. It then examines why aid often breaks down the very institutions for collective action that it aims to promote. Breakdown in Pakistan identifies concrete measures to check the erosion of cooperation in foreign aid ... Read more
Thirty percent of foreign development aid is channeled through NGOs or community-based organizations to improve service delivery to the poor, build social capital, and establish democracy in developing nations. However, growing evidence suggests that aid often erodes, rather than promotes, cooperation within developing nations. This book presents a rare, micro level account of the complex decision-making processes that bring individuals together to form collective-action platforms. It then examines why aid often breaks down the very institutions for collective action that it aims to promote. Breakdown in Pakistan identifies concrete measures to check the erosion of cooperation in foreign aid ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804781329
SKU
V9780804781329
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Ref
99-50
About Masooda Bano
Masooda Bano holds a research fellowship in the Department of International Development and Wolfson College at the University of Oxford. Her research has won awards from the Economic and Social Research Council and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. She has collaborated with development agencies, such as the United Kingdom's Department of International Development and the United Nations.
Reviews for Breakdown in Pakistan: How Aid Is Eroding Institutions for Collective Action
Bano successfully brings the voices of those most affected by aid to the fore. By specifying the mechanisms both by which aid is failing and succeeding, she convincingly makes her case.
Jean E. Ensminger
Edie and Lew Wasserman Professor of Social Science at California Institute of Technology
This book is of high relevance to current ... Read more
Jean E. Ensminger
Edie and Lew Wasserman Professor of Social Science at California Institute of Technology
This book is of high relevance to current ... Read more