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Tournament Approaches to Policy Reform: Making Development Assistance More Effective

Tournament Approaches to Policy Reform: Making Development Assistance More Effective

Zinnes, Clifford F.

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Economics

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ISBN10: 0815797192
ISBN13: 9780815797197
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: Jun 10 2009
Pages: 394
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

While much foreign aid achieves commendable goals, some is ineffective. In this volume, Clifford Zinnes argues that a donor's intrinsic informational limitations on the local context as well as inability to control the progress of interventions mean that lack of success is not rooting in insufficient funding but in maladapted institution designs of interventions that don't foster local ownership. He indentifies and assesses a newly emerging class of foreign aid delivery that promises to overcome these obstacles. The approach is based on prospective inter-jurisdictional competition (PIJC). Beneficiary groups--often local-level governments, supported by their private sector and civil society--act as teams and compete against each other under explicit predefined rules and objectives to design and implement interventions under their own aegis to achieve the highest quantitatively measured performance, either relative to others (tournaments) or against a preset benchmark (certification). Teams that cooperate internally are the likeliest to win the rewards, which, aside from the longer run benefits of the intervention itself, might include more substantive financial or technical assitance from the sponsor.

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