Cash on Delivery

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Reducing Energy Poverty: Money Isn’t the Problem, But Paying for Results Might be the Solution
December 01, 2016
Aid agencies are investing more in energy projects than ever before, but will they succeed? Not if they ignore the key obstacle to progress: governments that choose the status quo over serious reforms.
POLICY PAPERS
Cash on Delivery Aid for Energy
November 03, 2016
Energy is critical to human welfare, yet energy consumption in developing countries is extremely low relative to modern living standards. Conventional aid programs have invested in energy production with some success but also with many notable failures. This paper discusses how a distinctive approac...
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What Can International Development Learn from Britain’s Olympic Team?
August 18, 2016
There is a lot of chatter about the reasons for Britain’s relative success in the Olympic games. This transformation in Britain’s sporting performance has generated a raft of tortured analogies with various non-sporting challenges, such as industrial and education policies (on which Brit...
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First (Out)come, First Served? “Dispensers for Safe Water” Tests a COD Hypothesis
August 04, 2016
I’ve been working on the idea of Cash on Delivery (COD) for some years under the hypothesis that if we could define good outcome indicators, someone would step forward to buy them. So what would happen if an organization came forward with a plan to supply a verified outcome in r...
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The New Leader in Cash on Delivery is… India!
July 25, 2016
Now the Government of India and the World Bank have adopted an approach using principles we describe as Cash on Delivery (COD). The program follows three of these principles by linking payments to outcomes, not inputs; independently verifying outcomes; and allowing recipients to take the l...
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What We’d Like to Happen at the UK Government’s Anti-Corruption Summit
May 10, 2016
“For too long there has been a taboo about tackling [corruption] head on. The summit will change that.” That, at least, is the optimistic pronouncement from the leader of Her Majesty’s Government ahead of the UK anti-corruption summit in London this week.
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MCC Gets Serious About Paying for Results
April 21, 2016
For some time, we’ve been cheering MCC’s interest in pursuing approaches that pay for outcomes and encouraging the agency’s stakeholders to get onboard (here and here). Now we can applaud an important step forward. The agency’s new compact with M...