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Results Not Receipts - Counting the Right Things in Aid and Corruption (Paperback)
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Results Not Receipts - Counting the Right Things in Aid and Corruption (Paperback)
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In the aftermath of the invasion of Afghanistan, the U.S. Agency
for International Development supported the Afghan Ministry of
Public Health to deliver basic healthcare to 90 percent of the
population, at a cost of $4.50 a head. The program played a vital
role in improving the country's health; the number of children
dying before the age of five dropped by 100,000 a year. But
accounting standards at the Ministry of Public Health concerned the
United States Special Investigator General for Afghanistan. There
was no evidence of malfeasance, nor argument about the success of
the program. For all that the results were fantastic, receipts were
not in order. The investigator called for the health program to be
suspended because of ""financial management deficiencies"" at the
ministry. This case illustrates a growing problem: an important and
justified focus on corruption as a barrier to development has led
to policy change in aid agencies that is damaging the potential for
aid to deliver results. Donors have treated corruption as an issue
they can measure and improve, and from which they can insulate
their projects at acceptable costs by controlling processes and
monitoring receipts. Results Not Receipts highlights the weak link
between donors' preferred measures of corruption and development
outcomes related to our limited ability to measure the problem. It
discusses the costs of the standard anti-corruption tools of
fiduciary controls and centralized delivery, and it suggests a
different approach to tackling the problem of corruption in
development: focus on outcomes.
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