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Formula Based Allocation of Public Funds: The Case of Higher Education Research Funding

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  • Ameen Ali Talib

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Formula funding models can be used to achieve broad objectives while maintaining the recipients’ autonomy to take decisions. In order to avoid the transfers becoming a complex web of specific grants, formula funding models can incorporate a ‘veil of ignorance’ which permits the recipient to spend the resources on a different pattern from the one on which they were ‘earned’. The Research Selectivity Exercise, operated by the Higher Education Funding Council for England is one such model. This article analyses the use of formula funding to shed light on whether the outcome reflects national policy objectives.

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  • Ameen Ali Talib, 2001. "Formula Based Allocation of Public Funds: The Case of Higher Education Research Funding," Public Money & Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 21(1), pages 57-64, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:pubmmg:v:21:y:2001:i:1:p:57-64
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-9302.00250
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    1. Gloria Agyemang, 2010. "Accounting for needs? Formula funding in the UK schools sector," Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Emerald Group Publishing, vol. 23(1), pages 82-110, January.

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