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The PRSP Approach and the Illusion of Improved Aid Effectiveness: Lessons from Bolivia, Honduras and Nicaragua

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  • Geske Dijkstra

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Since 1999, poor countries that want to qualify for concessionary IMF loans and debt relief must elaborate and implement Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers. Donors claim that the PRSP approach will increase aid effectiveness since PRSPs will enhance broad country ownership and lead to better 'partnership' with donors, implying more donor co-ordination under government leadership. By examining the experiences of Bolivia, Honduras and Nicaragua, this article finds that the results are disappointing. The article also shows that, by emphasising rational planning and ignoring politics, the PRSP approach has unintended and sometimes harmful consequences. This leads to recommendations for changes of the approach. Copyright Overseas Development Institute, 2005.

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  • Geske Dijkstra, 2005. "The PRSP Approach and the Illusion of Improved Aid Effectiveness: Lessons from Bolivia, Honduras and Nicaragua," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 23(4), pages 443-464, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:devpol:v:23:y:2005:i:4:p:443-464
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    1. Paul Nelson, 2006. "The varied and conditional integration of NGOs in the aid system: NGOs and the World Bank," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 18(5), pages 701-713.
    2. Malin Hasselskog, 2020. "What happens to local participation when national ownership gets stronger? Initiating an exploration in Rwanda and Cambodia," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 38(S1), pages 91-111, May.
    3. Eggen, Andrea & Bezemer, Dirk J, 2007. "Do Poverty Reduction Strategies Help Achieve The Millennium Development Goals?," MPRA Paper 7030, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Ali Unlu & Alican Kapti, 2012. "Failed alternative development programs: an implementation analysis of coca supply-reduction programs in Bolivia," International Journal of Public Policy, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 8(1/2/3), pages 160-179.
    5. Cassimon, Danny & Vaessen, Jos, 2007. "Theory, practice and potential of debt for development swaps in the Asian and Pacific region," Economic Systems, Elsevier, vol. 31(1), pages 12-34, March.
    6. Stephen Brown, 2016. "Putting Paris into practice: Foreign aid, national ownership, and donor alignment in Mali and Ghana," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2016-145, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    7. Stephen Brown, 2016. "Putting Paris into practice: Foreign aid, national ownership, and donor alignment in Mali and Ghana," WIDER Working Paper Series 145, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    8. Koch, Susanne, 2017. "International influence on forest governance in Tanzania: Analysing the role of aid experts in the REDD+ process," Forest Policy and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 83(C), pages 181-190.
    9. Palash Kamruzzaman, 2013. "Civil society or ‘comprador class’, participation or parroting?," Progress in Development Studies, , vol. 13(1), pages 31-49, January.
    10. David Hulme & James Scott, 2010. "The Political Economy of the MDGs: Retrospect and Prospect for the World's Biggest Promise," Global Development Institute Working Paper Series 11010, GDI, The University of Manchester.

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