http://www.owen.org/blog/506 Thoughts on development and beyond Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:50:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.owen.org/blog/506/comment-page-1#comment-2145 CSM Sat, 20 May 2006 19:59:35 +0000 http://www.owen.org/blog/506#comment-2145 Nothing is totally independent, you are right (CGD blog) but I think you know that in many cases the consultants carrying out the evaluations are the same consultants that have helped implement BS programmes.  Of course, one would have expected this...though I wonder what would have happenned if the IFS would have been involved. Also, you can imagine how difficult is to  model the counterfactual here.  (For a nice technical evaluation see Howard White and education in Ghana, IEG). Still budget support may be the best thing, though I suspect that for public finance management to be biting you need some democratic accountability.  In practice, my sense is that donors are not as happy as two years ago with budget support...but who knows. ;-)   Nothing is totally independent, you are right (CGD blog) but I think you know that in many cases the consultants carrying out the evaluations are the same consultants that have helped implement BS programmes.  Of course, one would have expected this…though I wonder what would have happenned if the IFS would have been involved. Also, you can imagine how difficult is to  model the counterfactual here.  (For a nice technical evaluation see Howard White and education in Ghana, IEG). Still budget support may be the best thing, though I suspect that for public finance management to be biting you need some democratic accountability.  In practice, my sense is that donors are not as happy as two years ago with budget support…but who knows.   

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