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Conference Paper
The financial competitiveness implications
Journal Article
Success begins with a feasibility study
Pay for Success (PFS), a form of social impact financing, is receiving international attention as a way to pay for scaling up high-return interventions, ranging from prisoner rehabilitation to infant health. It is attractive because risk of failure is shifted from taxpayers to the private sector; if programs don?t work, government doesn?t pay. Government pays for success by rebating a large portion of the savings from programs that work to private investors in those programs. If there are no savings, that is if interventions do not reduce government costs, there is nothing to rebate to ...
Discussion Paper
The nonhomotheticity of commercial bank production functions