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Global non-profit chains and the challenges of development aid contracting (2018)
Journal Article
Burger, R., Owens, T., & Prakash, A. (2019). Global non-profit chains and the challenges of development aid contracting. Nonprofit Policy Forum, 9(4), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1515/npf-2018-0026

This paper employs Oliver Williamson’s transaction cost approach to assess contracting. We find that donor contracting with global non-profit chains is conducive to NPO opportunism due to the asset specificity of the contracts, infrequent contracting... Read More about Global non-profit chains and the challenges of development aid contracting.

Labour market and intra-household dynamics in urban Tanzania (2018)
Journal Article
Bridges, S., Gaggero, A., & Owens, T. (2018). Labour market and intra-household dynamics in urban Tanzania

While a large body of literature documents the existence of informal arrangements to share risk across and within households, there has been little research on the various coping strategies through which risk sharing takes place, and how these strate... Read More about Labour market and intra-household dynamics in urban Tanzania.