Financing Peace : International and National Resources for Postconflict Countries and Fragile States

Identifies weaknesses in current financing arrangements for postconflict countries and fragile states, with a focus on official development assistance (ODA). Tensions persist between business-as-usual development policies and policies responsive to the demands of peacebuilding. The preferential allo...

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Main Authors:	Boyce, James K., Forman, Shepard
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2012
Subjects:	World Development Report 2011
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9105

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spelling	okr-10986-91052021-04-23T14:02:44Z Financing Peace : International and National Resources for Postconflict Countries and Fragile States Boyce, James K. Forman, Shepard World Development Report 2011 Identifies weaknesses in current financing arrangements for postconflict countries and fragile states, with a focus on official development assistance (ODA). Tensions persist between business-as-usual development policies and policies responsive to the demands of peacebuilding. The preferential allocation of aid to 'good performers,' in the name of maximizing its payoff in terms of economic growth, militates against aid to fragile and conflict-affected states. If the aim of aid is redefined to include durable peace, the conventional performance criteria for aid allocation lose much of their force. Yet the difficulties that initially prompted donors to become more selective in aid allocation remain all too real. The donor move to selectivity came in response to evidence that in some contexts aid has perverse effects on economic performance. At present, neither donors nor recipients have anything close to an adequate idea of how aid monies are being spent, let alone the impacts of this spending on peacebuilding and statebuilding. 2012-06-26T15:38:27Z 2012-06-26T15:38:27Z 2011 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9105 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Africa Europe and Central Asia Latin America & Caribbean
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description	Identifies weaknesses in current financing arrangements for postconflict countries and fragile states, with a focus on official development assistance (ODA). Tensions persist between business-as-usual development policies and policies responsive to the demands of peacebuilding. The preferential allocation of aid to 'good performers,' in the name of maximizing its payoff in terms of economic growth, militates against aid to fragile and conflict-affected states. If the aim of aid is redefined to include durable peace, the conventional performance criteria for aid allocation lose much of their force. Yet the difficulties that initially prompted donors to become more selective in aid allocation remain all too real. The donor move to selectivity came in response to evidence that in some contexts aid has perverse effects on economic performance. At present, neither donors nor recipients have anything close to an adequate idea of how aid monies are being spent, let alone the impacts of this spending on peacebuilding and statebuilding.
author	Boyce, James K. Forman, Shepard
author_facet	Boyce, James K. Forman, Shepard
author_sort	Boyce, James K.
title	Financing Peace : International and National Resources for Postconflict Countries and Fragile States
title_short	Financing Peace : International and National Resources for Postconflict Countries and Fragile States
title_full	Financing Peace : International and National Resources for Postconflict Countries and Fragile States
title_fullStr	Financing Peace : International and National Resources for Postconflict Countries and Fragile States
title_full_unstemmed	Financing Peace : International and National Resources for Postconflict Countries and Fragile States
title_sort	financing peace : international and national resources for postconflict countries and fragile states
publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
publishDate	2012
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9105
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Financing Peace : International and National Resources for Postconflict Countries and Fragile States

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