Results-Based Approaches in Development : A Review
After falling out of fashion somewhat (Schmitz, 2006) there has been a resurgence of interest in conditional or results-based instruments over the last few years. Faced with increasing pressure on budgets and sometimes frustrated with the perceived...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/08/26720529/results-based-approaches-development-review http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25200 |
| Summary: | After falling out of fashion somewhat
(Schmitz, 2006) there has been a resurgence of interest in
conditional or results-based instruments over the last few
years. Faced with increasing pressure on budgets and
sometimes frustrated with the perceived ineffectiveness of
development spending, policy makers have started to explore
new ways of structuring development support in order to do
more with less. However, as is well known, conditionality
has a mixed track record. It is therefore important to
understand where, when, and how these new instruments are
best deployed; what their strengths are, and what their
weaknesses; and what critical information we are still
missing about them. Initial research on these new
instruments is emerging, but so far there is no overarching
structure or overall research program that unifies these
efforts. A review that provides a general overview of this
burgeoning field may therefore be useful both to policy
makers and to researchers: it can both summarize the current
state of the art and it may help to prevent duplicate
research as well as identify gaps that could usefully be
filled. This paper conducts such a review and seeks to
summarize the already existing research on this topic. The
report is structured as follows. First the authors give an
overview of the subject matter, describing the concept and
the terminology of results-based approaches. Next, they
survey the research landscape on this topic, pointing out
which areas are well covered, and which ones less so. In
sections four and five the authors then structure and
summarize the start of the art in theoretical research
(section four) and in empirical research (section five). The
authors conclude with some overarching findings and
questions for further research. |
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