Critics often condemn development aid for being ineffective and wasteful. A new breed of funding models - social impact bonds and development impact bonds - seeks to remedy these failings by providing incentives to funders, donors and aid recipients.
To see how these models differ from existing practice, we need to review development financing and its shortcomings. Two main funding models exist.
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