IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/b/zbw/diestu/68.html
   My bibliography  Save this book

Evaluation of budget support in Zambia: implementation, direct effects and political economy

Author

Listed:
  • Leiderer, Stefan
  • Faust, Jörg

Abstract

This study - commissioned by the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) – evaluates the direct effects (i.e. the direct and induced outputs) of budget support in Zambia. It forms part of a joint international evaluation of budget support in Zambia. The report focuses on strategies of the cooperating partners in providing budget support, the processes and structure of donor harmonization and alignment with government policies and systems, and the effects of budget support on induced outputs such as institutional performance, public financial management, and allocative and operational efficiency. The overall assessment of budget support in Zambia is positive: The evaluation concludes that budget support has helped to realize a number of objectives in Zambia, especially as a financing instrument supporting the national development strategy. At the same time, the evaluation also concludes that budget support could have been even more effective in Zambia, in particular as an instrument to promote good governance and effective state institutions. Weaknesses on the part of Zambian government as well as a lack of harmonization and coordination on the donor side have weakened the potential of the instrument in this respect.

Suggested Citation

  • Leiderer, Stefan & Faust, Jörg, 2012. "Evaluation of budget support in Zambia: implementation, direct effects and political economy," IDOS Studies, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), volume 68, number 68, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:diestu:68
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/199193/1/die-study-68.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Leiderer, Stefan, 2013. "Donor Coordination for Effective Government Policies? Implementation of the New Aid Effectiveness Agenda in Health and Education in Zambia," WIDER Working Paper Series 049, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    2. Stefan Leiderer, 2015. "Donor Coordination for Effective Government Policies?," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 27(8), pages 1422-1445, November.
    3. Reinsberg, Bernhard, 2015. "Foreign Aid Responses to Political Liberalization," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 75(C), pages 46-61.
    4. Stefan Leiderer, 2013. "Donor Coordination for Effective Government Policies?: Implementation of the New Aid Effectiveness Agenda in Health and Education in Zambia," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2013-049, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:zbw:diestu:68. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/ditubde.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.