Barriers to Political Analysis in Aid Bureaucracies: From Principle to Practice in DFID and the World Bank

World Development

Volumn 74, Issue , 2015, Pages 209-219

  Yanguas, Pablo ^a   Hulme, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aid effectiveness; DFID; Foreign aid; Political economy analysis; United Kingdom; World Bank

Indexed keywords

BUREAUCRACY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INTERNATIONAL AID; POLITICAL ECONOMY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; WORLD BANK;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84930934317     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: 18735991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.05.009     Document Type: Article

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