Who pays for economic recovery?
Some argue that the international community can provide technical support to ensure the sound public financial capacity of governments so that the governments can finance their own peace. James Boyce and Madalene O’Donnell of CIC describe four ways in which the international community can support government efforts to mobilize domestic revenue: by providing technical assistance, by linking some of its aid to progress in domestic revenue performance (i.e., conditionality), by helping to curb extralegal revenue extractions, and by reducing tax exemption on post-war aid.121 According to the CIC report on early recovery, the international community can implement several activities/systems for “closing the financing gap”:122 • Expansion of the use of the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund to support operational spending around political activities by special representatives of the secretary-general (SRSG) and to provide INSERT teams with limited seed funding.123 • Establishment of an Early R
