Informational Standards in Development Agency Management |
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| Institution: | 1. Health Information Systems Research Centre, University College Cork, Ireland;2. School of Nursing, Midwifery & Social Work, University of Manchester, UK;3. Health Research Group, University College Dublin, Ireland;4. Global eHealth Unit, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, UK;1. Graduate School of International Management, Aoyama Gakuin University, 4-4-25 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan;2. Logistics System Dynamics Group, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, Aberconway Building, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU, United Kingdom;3. Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, 325 Sage Hall, Ithaca, NY, USA |
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| Abstract: | How well do international development agencies support development in poor countries? Idealist, legal-bureaucratic, and populist views insist that they often do a good job, and documentary evidence suggests that aid generally works (Cassen and Associates, 1994, Does Aid Work? Report to an Intergovernmental Task Force, second edition. Oxford University Press, New York). Realist, neomarxist and neoliberal critiques, however, suggest that documents may not be reliable. This paper presents evidence of informational standards and development impacts from four US Agency for International Development (USAID) and four World Bank projects in Africa. We find significant positive bias in project documents; promotional and analytical purposes often collide. Weak informational standards undermine incentives to manage for impact and reduce the prospects for bureaucratic learning. |
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