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Dear All, Can I add a question to those set out by Stephen in his introduction to the theme? This relates to the balance between funding for budgetary support, projects, etc. One of the main criticisms of projects arises from experience with agricultural projects in the 70s and 80s when they were large, complex and appeared to have failed because of (a) management and implementation failures and (b) failure to address more fundamental macro-economic and sectoral constraints. However we have learnt a fair amount since then (both from those failures and from experience with the alternatives) and projects were also sometimes very successful. However projects now run against the emphasis on low cost disbursement. Is this an issue that this forum needs to address? Is budgetary support appropriate to agriculture? In what way and under what conditions? Does DFID need to put more emphasis on projects? How could this be done in a way that addresses the issues raised above? Best wishes Andrew Andrew Dorward Reader in Agricultural Development Economics Director, Centre for Development and Poverty Reduction Department of Agricultural Sciences Imperial College London Wye Campus Wye ASHFORD Kent TN25 5AH UK Tel: +44 (0)207 594 2679 Fax: +44 (0)207 594 2838 Visit our website at www.wye.ic.ac.uk/AgEcon/ADU for more information about research and teaching and for a range of downloadable working papers
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