Guerrero, OA;
Castañeda, G;
(2020)
Quantifying the coherence of development policy priorities.
Development Policy Review
10.1111/dpr.12498.
(In press).
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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 |
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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: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12498 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
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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