- On Not Being Cavalier About Results by Nancy Birdsall, Centre for Global Development, 1Dec 2010
- It’s wrong to assume results-based aid will lead to a culture of quick wins, Andrew Mitchell, 25 Nov 2010
- Aid policy is dangerously contradictory. Seeking quick wins in development sends civil servants chasing fictional figures while long-term poverty reduction suffer, by Madeline Bunting, The Guardian, 12 Nov 2010
- UK’s emphasis on results will narrow the focus of its foreign aid budget Achieving value for money may please the public but it won’t be good for the poor, by Jonathan Glennie, The Guardian, 1 Nov 2010
- Harvard Business Review: Our Ineffectiveness at Measuring Effectiveness, by Dan Pallotta, 1 Nov, 2010
- Incentives, results and bureaucracy in aid, by Owen Barder, 22 October 2010
- Doing aid centre-right: marrying a results-based agenda with the realities of aid, by Simon Maxwell, 21 October, 2010
- From one extreme to another, by Lawrence Haddad, on his Development Horizons blog, 20 October 2010.
- This discussion cites data on success rates of DFID projects which are also cited on my recent blog posting: Do we need a Minimum Level of Failure (MLF)? , on 5th October 2010
- Is the aid industry’s audit culture becoming a threat to accountability? by Duncan Green, 12 October 2010
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