Nancy Birdsall was featured in an article by the Pakistan Observer.
From the Article
To a question about State Owned Entities (SOEs), the federal minister said that proposals are there to provide autonomy to these entities and run these on innovative way with involving professionalism. He said that proposal for making a holding company was also discussed during the EAC meeting. Regarding the question about taxes, he said that all incomes must be taxed without going into details where from these come adding that there was need for legislation to implement it. Earlier, speaking at the lecture, the federal minister said that Pakistan economy had witnessed the times of considerable growth; however these spurts could not be sustained.
Moreover, Nancy Birdsall, President of Centre for Global Development, Washington USA in her public lecture on “Effectiveness of Foreign Aid and Relationship between donor and recipient country,” stressed the need for bringing transformation from transaction-oriented aid to resulted oriented aid.
She delivered a detailed lecture on Cash on Delivery (CoD) aid which she said focuses on outcome instead of cash imbursements and inputs. She said that under this mode of aid, the recipient government makes decision on about what to do with the resources and make progress on the outcomes, adding that third party verification is made on the government’s annual progress report. She said that CoD contract, annual report and the third party verification are to be made public soon. Among others, the lecture was attended by Deputy Chairman Planning Commission, Dr Nadeem-ul-Haq, member, Dr Ashfaq Ahmed and other officers of the commission and ministry of finance as well as members of civil society.