The Governance Brief: Addressing the Political Dimensions of Development (Issue 14-2006)
Pycroft, Christopher | June 2006
Abstract
The development community has a preferred, tried, and tested way of supporting development. Development assistance, as currently structured, works best when the recipient government has a clear commitment to poverty reduction, and where the governance institutions have been restructured to maximize the development impact of both government (supply-side) and civil society (demand-side). The standard for this approach is embodied in the PRS, where the transparency of the Government’s commitment is reinforced with accountability, providing development partners with a higher degree of assurance that development resources will be appropriately managed, thus facilitating budgetary support. In this environment, development partners can focus on apolitical technical solutions to capacity constraints confronted by most government organizations, confident that the necessary political safeguards are in place.
Citation
Pycroft, Christopher. 2006. The Governance Brief: Addressing the Political Dimensions of Development (Issue 14-2006). © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/2661. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.Keywords
Governance
Corporate Governance Reform
Governance Approach
Governance Quality
Public Sector Projects
Public Sector Reform
Government
Institutional Framework
Public Administration
Business Ethics
Political Leadership
Public enterprises
Public finance
Government
Political obligation
Public management
Government accountability
Transparency in government
Political ethics
Government spending policy
Government services
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