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Can Results-Based Payments Reduce Corruption?-Working Paper 345

Kenny, Charles; Savedoff, William - 2013

A common objection to results-based programs is that they are somehow more vulnerable to corruption. This paper explains why results-based approaches to foreign aid may be less vulnerable to corruption than the traditional approaches which monitor and track the purchase and delivery of inputs...

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From Pushing Reforms to Pulling Reforms: The Role of Challenge Programs in Foreign Aid Policy

Radelet, Steve - 2005

Most donors deliver aid in very similar ways across recipient countries even though recipients vary widely in the quality of their governance, commitment to strong development policies, degree of political stability, and level of institutional capacity. Aid effectiveness could be improved if...

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Cash On Delivery Aid for Health: What Indicators Would Work Best- Working Paper 275

Savedoff, William D.; Martel, Katherine Douglas - 2011

The idea of applying a Cash on Delivery Aid (COD Aid) approach to the health sector has been raised many times, particularly in relation to addressing malaria, HIV/AIDS, maternal health, and water. After assessing the challenges of applying COD Aid in the health sector, this paper considers 10...

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The Health Systems Funding Platform: Resolving Tensions between the Aid and Development Effectiveness Agendas - Working Paper 258

Glassman, Amanda; Savedoff, William - 2011

Global health aid is exceedingly complex. It encompasses more than one hundred bilateral agencies, global funds, and independent initiatives that interact with an equally complex and diverse set of institutions involved in financing and providing health care in developing countries. Numerous...

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Who Are the MDG Trailblazers? A New MDG Progress Index - Working Paper 222

Leo, Benjamin; Barmeier, Julia - 2010

In this working paper, the authors introduce an MDG Progress Index to assess how on or off track countries are toward MDG targets. They find evidence of dramatic achievements by many poor countries, such as Honduras, Laos, Ethiopia, Uganda, Burkina Faso, Nepal, Cambodia, and Ghana. These...

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Towards a New Consensus for Addressing the Global Challenge of the Lack of Education

Pritchett, Lant - 2004

to address the ten largest challenges facing the world. One of these ten challenges is the “lack of education.” This … paper will define “lack of education,” in terms of enrollments, attainments and learning achievement. It provides an … analytical framework to evaluate the various options that can be used to address this issue. Education can be described as …

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Through the Looking-Glass, and What OLS Found There: On Growth, Foreign Aid, and Reverse Causality

Roodman, David - 2008

The cross-country literature on foreign aid effectiveness has relied on the use of instruments to distinguish causality from mere correlation. This paper uses simple non-instrumental techniques in the spirit of Granger to demonstrate that the main aid-growth connection is a negative causal...

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Macro Aid Effectiveness Research: A Guide for the Perplexed

Roodman, David - 2007

Like many public policy debates, that over whether foreign aid works carries on in two worlds. Within the research world, it plays out in the form of papers full of technical language, formulas, and numbers. Outside, the arguments are plainer and the audience broader, but those academic studies...

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Macro Aid Effectiveness Research: A Guide for the Perplexed

Roodman, David - 2007

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Can Donors Be Flexible within Restrictive Budget Systems? Options for Innovative Financing Mechanisms - Working Paper 226

Leo, Benjamin - 2010

This paper focuses on how budgetary scorekeeping systems affect governments’ ability or willingness to support innovative development finance initiatives and explores several options to overcome the restrictions the systems often impose. As a starting point, it assumes that donor governments,...

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