Budget Support as More Effective Aid?: Recent Experiences and Emerging Lessons - Softcover

Stefan Koeberle, Et Al

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0821364634 ISBN 13: 9780821364635

Publisher: World Bank Publications, 2006

Synopsis

Budget support has become an increasingly important instrument in the context of a partnership-based approach to development assistance. Compared to traditional modes of aid delivery, it promises greater country ownership, reduced transaction costs, better donor coordination, scaling up of poverty reduction and potentially greater development effectiveness.

This book presents a timely and valuable review of key concepts, issues, experiences and emerging lessons relevant to budget support. It provides an overview of principal characteristics, expectations and concerns related to budget support, key design and implementation issues, as well as some practical experiences. The contributors include government representatives from developing countries, leading academic scholars, bilateral development agencies and development practitioners from international financial institutions, including the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

They present a wide range of views on key issues such as the choice of instruments, alignment of budget support with country programs, predictability, and coordination and conditionality.

The authors draw their insightful analysis on the contemporary research and evaluation work, as well as the broad practical experience with budget support. This book will be of great interest to practitioners in aid-recipient countries and international financial institutions, bilateral agencies and civil organizations involved in budget support.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0821364634
• ISBN 13: 9780821364635
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 524