Visiting Fellow
Education: Ph.D. Boston University; M.A. Boston University; A.B. Harvard University
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Bill Savedoff has been working for more than 20 years on economic and social development issues. His work is focused on finding ways to improve the quality of social services in developing countries, with particular attention to incentives, institutions, and political-economy.
In addition to preparing, coordinating, and advising development projects in Latin America, Africa and Asia for the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Health Organization, he has published books and articles on labor markets, health, education, water, and housing. As Senior Partner at Social Insight, Bill has worked for clients including the National Institutes of Health, Transparency International, and the World Bank. He also serves on the editorial board of Health Policy & Planning.
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Cash on Delivery (COD) Aid proposes serious reform to make aid work well by forcing accountability, aligning the objectives of funders and recipients, and sharing information about what works.
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Can aid donors find a better way to deliver aid? My guest this week is Nancy Birdsall, president of the Center for Global Development. Along with William Savedoff and Ayah Mahgoub, Nancy is working on a potential new way of disbursing foreign assistance called Cash on Delivery Aid. COD Aid seeks to devise simple, results-based contracts that reward developing countries for making progress towards previously agreed goals—such as increased primary school completion rates, vaccination coverage, or access to clean water.
In the podcast, Nancy explains that the traditional mode of giving aid, in which donors often take an active role in prescribing which actions recipient governments should take, can undermine incentives for governments to identify problems and design and implement locally appropriate solutions. "We have to create a system in which outside resources actually help the developing country governments find out what works in their particular setting," says Nancy.
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Cash on Delivery (COD) Aid proposes serious reform to make aid work well by forcing accountability, aligning the objectives of funders and recipients, and sharing information about what works.
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Can aid donors find a better way to deliver aid? My guest this week is Nancy Birdsall, president of the Center for Global Development. Along with William Savedoff and Ayah Mahgoub, Nancy is working on a potential new way of disbursing foreign assistance called Cash on Delivery Aid. COD Aid seeks to devise simple, results-based contracts that reward developing countries for making progress towards previously agreed goals—such as increased primary school completion rates, vaccination coverage, or access to clean water.
In the podcast, Nancy explains that the traditional mode of giving aid, in which donors often take an active role in prescribing which actions recipient governments should take, can undermine incentives for governments to identify problems and design and implement locally appropriate solutions. "We have to create a system in which outside resources actually help the developing country governments find out what works in their particular setting," says Nancy.
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Cash on Delivery: A New Approach to Foreign Aid
- Mar 16, 2010
Cash on Delivery (COD) Aid proposes serious reform to make aid work well by forcing accountability, aligning the objectives of funders and recipients, and sharing information about what works.
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Cash on Delivery: A New Approach to Foreign Aid
- Mar 23, 2010
Donor countries have committed to major increases in development assistance but doubts remain over how effective this aid is. At this launch of their new book, authors Nancy Birdsall, William Savedoff, and Ayah Mahgoub present Cash on Delivery Aid, an approach that links aid directly to outcomes in ways that promote accountability and strengthen local institutions. It builds on existing initiatives that strive to disburse aid against results, but it takes the idea further by linking payments more directly to a single specific outcome; giving the recipient country full authority to achieve progress however it sees fit and without interference of any kind from donors; and assuring that the recipient country's progress is transparent and visible to its own citizens. These features could rebalance accountability, reduce transaction costs, and encourage local innovation and learning. Please join us, along with our panelists, to discuss this new approach to aid.
Non-CGD Publications
- Governing Mandatory Health Insurance: Learning from Experience. World Bank, Washington, DC. 2008. (Co-edited with Pablo Gottret).
- “What Should a Country Spend on Health Care?” Health Affairs 26(4): 1-9. 2007.
- Diagnosis Corruption: Fraud in Latin America’s Hospitals. Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC. 2000. (Co-edited with Rafael Di Tella).
To learn more about Bill Savedoff visit his webpage at Social Insight.
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