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Quantifying the coherence of development policy priorities

Guerrero, OA; Castañeda, G; (2021) Quantifying the coherence of development policy priorities. Development Policy Review , 39 (2) pp. 155-180. 10.1111/dpr.12498. Green open access

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Abstract

MOTIVATION: Over the last 30 years, the concept of policy coherence for development has received attention among academics, practitioners and international organizations. However, its quantification and measurement remain elusive. / RESEARCH QUESTIONS: To address this challenge, we develop a quantitative counterfactual‐based framework to measure the coherence of policy priorities for development. / APPROACH OF METHODS: Our procedure takes into account the country‐specific constraints that governments face when trying to reach development goals. Hence, we present a new definition of policy coherence where resource allocations are employed as the baseline to construct an index. RESULTS: We validate this coherence index by producing country‐specific estimates that are consistent with well‐known cases of development strategies (both successful and failed). / CONCLUSIONS: Our results highlight the limitations of assessing coherence in terms of benchmark comparisons using development‐indicator data. Altogether, our framework sheds new light in a promising direction to develop bespoke analytic tools to meet the 2030 Agenda.

Type: Article
Title: Quantifying the coherence of development policy priorities
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1111/dpr.12498
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12498
Language: English
Additional information: © 2020 The Authors. Development Policy Review published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Overseas Development Institute This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: Computational; development; index; multidimensional; network; OECD; policy coherence; policy priorities
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Economics
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10109305
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