Subject(s): Economic assistance -- Economic development -- IAD -- International Development -- Development aid : Five key concepts for institutional analysis of development aid, promoting development -- Theoretical foundations : for study of development aid, institutional analysis and development framework, motivational problems at operational level, information problem at an operational level -- Better development through better policy- development aid's challenges at the collective choice level : -- Incentives across action situations in development aid : international development cooperation octangle, principle agent arenas within donor and recipient countries, beneficiaries, applying IAD framework to analyse the donor-recipient dyad -- Formal analysis of incentives in strategic interactions involving an international development cooperation agency : Strategic implication of altruism for results, foreign aid as a substitute for borrowing in capital markets, externalities and market failures, Common pool resources (CPR), coordinated aid, equity consideration, warm-glow effects -- Incentives of different types of Aid : Configuration of aid capital, grants, credits and guarantees, tied aid, aid conditionality, modalities of aid -- Case studies : Applying IAD framework- incentives inside a development agency , incentives for contractors in aid-supported activities, Sida aid in electricity and natural resource projects in India, sida aid in electricity and natural resource projects in Zambia