The COVID-19 pandemic is an unexpected driver of cultural change. Science and the role governments in promoting investment knowledge creation are now prominent public discourse. Suddenly, laypeople who never paid attention to newspaper articles on scientific discoveries, funding work, socio-economic impact research development (R&D), realized that our life literally depends upon esoteric knowle...

The objective of this article is to improve the most widely used indicator quality in public investment management (the PIMI). methodology was use an alternative algorithm build a new version PIMI and calculate it for sixteen Latin American countries. result New that appears better than original one, as has positive correlation with efficiency investment, which not achieved by PIMI. We recommen...

This paper presents a summary of the major lessons learnt from the review of five cases of performance-based contracting in the water sector in three countries of Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA), namely Armenia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine. The report also identifies good practices for designing and implementing such contracts. Although the target audience of these Guidelines is de...

P olicymakers have long been aware that public investments in family planning services are cost effective. Indeed, this fact helped establish the federal program. In her book Within Our Reach, Lisbeth Schorr described the first federal investment in family planning under the War on Poverty launched by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965. He demanded programs that were “demonstrably cost-effective,...