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Breakdown in Pakistan: How Aid Is Eroding Institutions for Collective Action

The monograph Breakdown in Pakistan, draws on four distinct but closely linked studies designed to address four critical questions: 1) Why do people come together to produce a public good? 2) Are the rules governing cooperative behaviour the same within self-regarding and other-regarding groups? 3) Does aid have a negative impact on cooperative behaviour (both self-regarding and other-regarding)? 4). If yes, then why? Each one of these questions is addressed by looking at a distinct set of data especially generated to address that specific question. The article published in World Development (REF output 1), only drew on Chapter 5 of the book, which addresses question 3. The contribution of the book is thus much bigger than this article, which only draws on one part of the bigger argument.