Abstract

This paper provides an overview of the institutionalist literature on decoupling. Based on that literature, it proposes an analytic framework to consider state characteristics that lead to decoupling: commitment, capacity and context, or ‘the 3Cs’. Then, using this framework, it assesses what sorts of aid initiatives we would expect to see to answer the question ‘How can aid reduce or increase decoupling gaps?’ Finally, it presents several possible combinations of the 3Cs and examples of how the presence or absence of one or all of these components have increased or reduced decoupling in ongoing or concluded aid interventions.

中文翻译：

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认真对待外援与脱钩：研究框架

摘要

本文概述了关于脱钩的制度主义文献。基于这些文献，它提出了一个分析框架来考虑导致脱钩的国家特征：承诺、能力和背景，或“3C”。然后，使用这个框架，它评估我们希望看到什么样的援助计划来回答“援助如何减少或增加脱钩差距？”这个问题。最后，它提出了 3C 的几种可能组合，并举例说明了这些组成部分的存在与否如何增加或减少了正在进行或结束的援助干预中的脱钩。