Uses and Abuses of Per-diems in Africa: A Political Economy of Travel Allowances by #AfDB Most per diem payments are related to workshops and meetings usually for capacity building purposes.... The difficulty in evaluating the effectiveness of these meetings, particularly the worth of subsistence allowance in general, is mainly due to the difficulty in obtaining data on the costs. In particular, one of the questions for which anyone would like to have an answer is the interrogation on the magnitude and the relative amount that African governments put on per diems and allowances...Such a system of allowances creates opportunities for abuse and can be extremely costly as the possibility of earning per diems can have a distorting impact on programme design, management decisions, and how employees spend their time. This is at the root of the rent-seeking behavior observed around per diems, tacitly legitimized and stimulated by government and donors alike. Some of the drawbacks and inefficient factors associated with per diems include... #Good_to_know!
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 07:27:07 +0000
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