The making of public investments: Champions, coordination, and characteristics of nutrition interventions
To better support allocations of public investment—especially where needs are high and resources scarce—it is first instructive to have an in-depth understanding of what drives realized public investment behavior. The study applies a process-tracing approach to test and build theories around models...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
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| author | Mogues, Tewodaj Billings, Lucy |
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| description | To better support allocations of public investment—especially where needs are high and resources scarce—it is first instructive to have an in-depth understanding of what drives realized public investment behavior. The study applies a process-tracing approach to test and build theories around models that center on the characteristics of investments and the role of agents. In the context of public investment in nutrition in a low-resource economy, the analysis finds that public decisionmakers strongly favor highly visible nutrition investments with a short lag between spending incurred and outcomes achieved. Coordination among agents that allocate funds to nutrition takes mostly a spatial nature, resulting in greater geographic equity of public investment. Champions as change agents have an influential role in attracting more funding to nutrition and improving its allocation, but their influence is fleeting and difficult to sustain. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1503952025-11-06T06:29:47Z The making of public investments: Champions, coordination, and characteristics of nutrition interventions Mogues, Tewodaj Billings, Lucy nutrition policies coordination nutrition initiatives public expenditure To better support allocations of public investment—especially where needs are high and resources scarce—it is first instructive to have an in-depth understanding of what drives realized public investment behavior. The study applies a process-tracing approach to test and build theories around models that center on the characteristics of investments and the role of agents. In the context of public investment in nutrition in a low-resource economy, the analysis finds that public decisionmakers strongly favor highly visible nutrition investments with a short lag between spending incurred and outcomes achieved. Coordination among agents that allocate funds to nutrition takes mostly a spatial nature, resulting in greater geographic equity of public investment. Champions as change agents have an influential role in attracting more funding to nutrition and improving its allocation, but their influence is fleeting and difficult to sustain. 2015-11-20 2024-08-01T02:51:41Z 2024-08-01T02:51:41Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150395 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154023 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153433 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161354 https://doi.org/10.1111/saje.12076 https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896295643 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Mogues, Tewodaj; and Billings, Lucy. 2015. The making of public investments: Champions, coordination, and characteristics of nutrition interventions. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1479. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150395 |
| spellingShingle | nutrition policies coordination nutrition initiatives public expenditure Mogues, Tewodaj Billings, Lucy The making of public investments: Champions, coordination, and characteristics of nutrition interventions |
| title | The making of public investments: Champions, coordination, and characteristics of nutrition interventions |
| title_full | The making of public investments: Champions, coordination, and characteristics of nutrition interventions |
| title_fullStr | The making of public investments: Champions, coordination, and characteristics of nutrition interventions |
| title_full_unstemmed | The making of public investments: Champions, coordination, and characteristics of nutrition interventions |
| title_short | The making of public investments: Champions, coordination, and characteristics of nutrition interventions |
| title_sort | making of public investments champions coordination and characteristics of nutrition interventions |
| topic | nutrition policies coordination nutrition initiatives public expenditure |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150395 |
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