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The Great Divide? Donor perceptions of budget support, eligibility and policy dialogue

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  • Nadia Molenaers

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Budget Support (bs) has been considered the aid modality that best realises the Paris Declaration principles of alignment, harmonisation and respect for recipient ownership. In design the modality has a very strong technocratic focus, and the oecd/dac has endorsed the idea that bs should be delinked from broader political concerns. In reality, however, donors do use bs to leverage more and better democratic governance. This political use of bs is not limited to exceptional moments when the political situation seriously deteriorates in certain countries. This article shows that such use is grounded in fundamentally different visions and policies that donors hold regarding the scope of leverage for bs. Such starkly diverging interpretations of which reforms bs can ‘buy’ undermine the objectives the modality was designed to achieve.

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  • Nadia Molenaers, 2012. "The Great Divide? Donor perceptions of budget support, eligibility and policy dialogue," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 33(5), pages 791-806.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:33:y:2012:i:5:p:791-806
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2012.677311
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    1. Molenaers, Nadia & Dellepiane, Sebastian & Faust, Jorg, 2015. "Political Conditionality and Foreign Aid," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 75(C), pages 2-12.
    2. Koch, Svea, 2015. "A Typology of Political Conditionality Beyond Aid: Conceptual Horizons Based on Lessons from the European Union," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 75(C), pages 97-108.
    3. Hackenesch, Christine, 2015. "It’s Domestic Politics, Stupid! EU Democracy Promotion Strategies Meet African Dominant Party Regimes," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 75(C), pages 85-96.
    4. de Felice, Damiano, 2015. "Diverging Visions on Political Conditionality: The Role of Domestic Politics and International Socialization in French and British Aid," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 75(C), pages 26-45.
    5. Thilo Bodenstein & Jörg Faust, 2017. "Who Cares? European Public Opinion on Foreign Aid and Political Conditionality," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 55(5), pages 955-973, September.
    6. Fisher, Jonathan, 2015. "‘Does it Work?’ – Work for Whom? Britain and Political Conditionality since the Cold War," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 75(C), pages 13-25.
    7. Del Biondo, Karen, 2015. "Donor Interests or Developmental Performance? Explaining Sanctions in EU Democracy Promotion in sub-Saharan Africa," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 75(C), pages 74-84.
    8. Svea Koch & Stefan Leiderer & Jörg Faust & Nadia Molenaers, 2017. "The rise and demise of European budget support: political economy of collective European Union donor action," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 35(4), pages 455-473, July.
    9. Sven Grimm & Christine Hackenesch, 2017. "China in Africa: What challenges for a reforming European Union development policy? Illustrations from country cases," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 35(4), pages 549-566, July.

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