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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010729173
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005162634
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009195597
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008679913
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005509601
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005162626
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005162652
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005509589
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The End of ODA (II): The Birth of Hypercollective Action
Severino, Jean-Michel; Ray, Olivier - 2010
The development business has become much more complex in the past decade, with actors proliferating and collaboration fragmenting. This trend is characteristic of the change from collective action to what the authors term hypercollective action. Such a shift brings new energy and resources to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466395