(IFPRI ®) was established in 1975 to provide sustainable solutions for ending hunger and poverty. IFPRI is one of 15 agricultural research centers that receives its principal funding from governments, private foundations, and international and regional organizations, most of which are members of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (www.cgiar.org). This brief has been p...

In September 1993, ten countries sent delegations representing their governments, nongovernmental organizations, the private sector and academic communities to discuss implementing a new development paradigm with representatives from development assistance agencies. At the request of the project's sponsors the governments of Japan and the Netherlands and the United Nations Development Programme...

International organizations (IOs) are driven by political-administrative interactions between member states and IO administrations. To model these understand their outcomes, scholars have predominantly, almost exclusively, relied on agency theory. Yet, as this paper argues, delegation can also take a form of stewardship, where goal conflict information asymmetries low. In stewardship relationsh...

The research presented here is the result of a collaboration of government, industry and private non-profit organizations that formed in 2002 as the Consortium for Alfalfa Improvement. Scientists from the U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center/ARS-USDA, Forage Genetics International, Pioneer HiBred and The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Inc., have been conducting a focused biotech research effort ...

f rom 1990 to 1999, private capital flowing into developing countries grew significantly, from $43 billion to $239 billion. As a result, some policymakers have suggested reducing foreign aid to developing countries. An even more radical opinion holds that bilateral and multinational organizations such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund should be abolished, since “the market” ...

♦ This work is partly supported by a research fund from International Communications Foundation. Abstract-We are facing globalization of R&D activities over network involving different branches, companies, and organizations. These activities can be helped a lot by Internet. However, we have to be careful about security problems associated with such activities. The purpose of this paper is to id...