Why is Results-Based Budgeting Important to State Government, Local Communities, and Their Customers?
• Results-based budgeting helps policymakers focus on high impact policy strategies. High impact policy strategies are ones that are of sufficient scope and magnitude to reach the “tipping point,” the threshold at which social and economic conditions begin to change for significant numbers of customers and interact with other policy interventions to produce positive outcomes for the targeted population. • Results-based budgeting permits state policymakers to determine whether the positive outcomes for participants in a particular program track improving conditions for the broader target population. It is quite common for performance measures on participants in a specific program to show improvements while conditions among the broader population get worse. This can happen when the program does not address the problem it is intended to solve or because the scale of the program is too small to make a significant impact on the overall situation. • Results-based budgeting can be an effectiv
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