Supervision and Project Performance: A Principal-Agent Approach
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- Lisa Chauvet & Paul Collier & Andreas Fuster, 2017. "Supervision and Project Performance: A Principal-Agent Approach," Working Papers hal-01516966, HAL.
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Keywords
Principal-Agent theory; Aid projects; Supervision; Difficult partnerships.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D86 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Economics of Contract Law
- F35 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Foreign Aid
- O19 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - International Linkages to Development; Role of International Organizations
- O22 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - Project Analysis
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HRM-2015-03-22 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-PPM-2015-03-22 (Project, Program and Portfolio Management)
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