Governance or Poverty Reduction? Assessing Budget Support in Nicaragua
评估了尼加拉瓜两届政府期间的一般预算支持效果，发现多数捐助方更重视改善治理而非减贫，且对治理的影响有限。
Abstract General Budget Support (GBS) is assumed to lead to more effective poverty reduction through non-earmarking of the money and through recipient country ownership. A second and more hidden objective of GBS, however, is to influence policies and governance of recipient countries. This article develops an evaluation framework that takes the tensions between these two objectives into account. It then assesses the results of GBS in Nicaragua under two administrations. It concludes that for most donors, the aim of improving governance was more important than poverty reduction, in both government periods, thus reducing the effect of GBS on poverty reduction. In addition, donor influence on governance was limited.