Is the CGD’s Commitment to Development Index an expression of policy and spending quantifications within different sectors? I also wonder if ‘Commitment’ is the right way to call it, since some countries may be advantaged differently. For example, nations have limited control over how much, absolutely, they can spend on international peacekeeing, one of the Security’s three subcomponents due to different income levels.
This index can but does not have to motivate countries to optimize for an ‘ideal approach.’ This can be valuable when countries make better choices (e. g. realize that they get a better score if they divest from arms trade and invest into fishing alternatives) but disvaluable when the intent of the index is different from the effect of the calculation (e. g. if it would be favorable to take large sums from subsidized organic agriculture to arms trade within the context of ‘peacekeeping’).
A similar consideration should be applied in this list. There should be no way to ‘trick’ the index. A way to address this is enable adjustments alongside/based on feedback. This, in addition to the possibly reduced perception absoluteness can enable partiality based on convenience or strategical attraction of donors (for example, utility monsters can be weighted down if it would make someone extremely better than the others or up, if there is a large monsters donor who could be attracted to EA by their listing). But, this could be addressed by actually inviting the top people converse about possible improvements in the metrics, implementing impartiality considerations as they are applying courtesy to each other, maybe. Just some thoughts.
Is the CGD’s Commitment to Development Index an expression of policy and spending quantifications within different sectors? I also wonder if ‘Commitment’ is the right way to call it, since some countries may be advantaged differently. For example, nations have limited control over how much, absolutely, they can spend on international peacekeeing, one of the Security’s three subcomponents due to different income levels.
This index can but does not have to motivate countries to optimize for an ‘ideal approach.’ This can be valuable when countries make better choices (e. g. realize that they get a better score if they divest from arms trade and invest into fishing alternatives) but disvaluable when the intent of the index is different from the effect of the calculation (e. g. if it would be favorable to take large sums from subsidized organic agriculture to arms trade within the context of ‘peacekeeping’).
A similar consideration should be applied in this list. There should be no way to ‘trick’ the index. A way to address this is enable adjustments alongside/based on feedback. This, in addition to the possibly reduced perception absoluteness can enable partiality based on convenience or strategical attraction of donors (for example, utility monsters can be weighted down if it would make someone extremely better than the others or up, if there is a large monsters donor who could be attracted to EA by their listing). But, this could be addressed by actually inviting the top people converse about possible improvements in the metrics, implementing impartiality considerations as they are applying courtesy to each other, maybe. Just some thoughts.