Cash on Delivery (COD) Aid proposes a new approach to foreign assistance --one that links aid payments more directly to desired outcomes to promote accountability, responsibility, learning, and strengthening of local institutions.
Using an example from education, this book outlines how COD Aid could work in practice. It offers guidance on the identification of measurable outcomes and mechanisms for verification and the management of a variety of risks. The authors provide practical advice, documents, term sheets, and other supporting material that donors and potential recipient...
Cash on Delivery (COD) Aid proposes a new approach to foreign assistance --one that links aid payments more directly to desired outcomes to promote...
The global financial crisis of 2008-9 has changed the way people around the world think about development. The market-friendly, lightly regulated model of capitalism promoted by the United States is now at risk, and development thinking worldwide is at something of an impasse. Editors Nancy Birdsall and Francis Fukuyama bring together leading scholars to explore the implications of the global financial crisis on existing and future development strategies.
In addressing this issue, the contributors contemplate three central questions: What effect has the crisis had on current ideas in...
The global financial crisis of 2008-9 has changed the way people around the world think about development. The market-friendly, lightly regulated m...
Foreign aid has no shortage of critics. Some argue that it undermines development and inherently does more harm than good; others insist that aid must be seriously reformed to work properly. Cash on Delivery (COD) Aid proposes serious reform to make aid work well by forcing accountability, aligning the objectives of funders and recipients, and sharing information about what works.
Public and private aid can improve lives in poor countries, but the willingness of taxpayers and private funders to finance aid programs depends more than ever on showing results. COD Aid is a funding...
Foreign aid has no shortage of critics. Some argue that it undermines development and inherently does more harm than good; others insist that aid m...
Substantial progress in the fight against extreme poverty was made in the last two decades. But the slowdown in global economic growth and significant increases in income inequality in many developed and developing countries raise serious concerns about the continuation of this trend into the 21st century. The time has come to seriously think about how improvements in official global governance, coupled with and reinforced by rising activism of 'global citizens' can lead to welfare-enhancing and more equitable results for global citizens through better national and international policies....
Substantial progress in the fight against extreme poverty was made in the last two decades. But the slowdown in global economic growth and significant...
