The Delivery of Public Development Aid: a Buy-or-assembly Decision
Abstract: This paper seeks to answer the question of which international development projects must be outsourced from the public bureaucracies when the contractor is a non-profit organization. The make-or-buy decisions made by Spanish public bureaucracies for the delivery of development aid projects during three years are analysed. The results show that specialization of the public agency and the complexity and risk of the project matters. In addition, the nonprofits with more reputation will ‘benefit’ of the more uncertain and complex projects.
