Development Impact Bond (DIBs)

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Are Impact Bonds Worth It? How New Outcome Funds Could Help Answer an Open Question
Ellen Anderson et al.
August 09, 2019
As the use of impact bonds continues to grow, we ask whether results-based financing mechanism are able to fulfil their promises.
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DIBs: Value for Money or Just an Interesting Financing Mechanism?
Cassandra Nemzoff et al.
March 26, 2019
At the end of 2018, the world had seven development impact bonds (DIBs) and more in the pipeline. Yet questions remain about the potential of DIBs—still a new financing instrument—compared to other pay-for-performance arrangements. With a dearth of standard and transparent evaluation met...
POLICY PAPER

Development Impact Bonds Targeting Health Outcomes
Lorcan Clarke et al.
December 14, 2018
Using publicly available information, we describe all seven DIBs, and evaluate the three “health DIBs” in more detail, comparing their stakeholders, implementation, and outcome structures. We offer three recommendations to improve evaluation and inform development of DIBs in the future. ...
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Envisioning Pay-for-Success: Learning from an Eye Health DIB in Cameroon
Amanda Glassman
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Roxanne Oroxom
January 29, 2018
In 2013, a CGD working group signaled important benefits of development impact bonds, and worked through some of the “how-to” of design and implementation. Yet five years later, only three development impact bonds have launched.