Street performers are able to contribute to a fabric of a city’s creative dynamic. The exchange for money between a street performer and an audience is a changing landscape. As less cash is carried on people’s person and audiences want to participate in exchange, the industry is ripe for disruption. The paper uses a unique data set from the online busking platform ‘The Busking Project’ to analyse individual donations to 3757 active buskers. Using a Heckman selection model, we find that the number of fans does influence the number of donations and the artist’s genre matters for the likelihood of receiving donation and the amount received. Musicians are more likely to receive a donation; however, it is a smaller donation amount than other performers. The method of payment for receiving a donation and the anonymity of the donor also influences the amount received. The geographic location matters for receiving a donation but not the amount received.

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Social protection and equity are missing elements of the Millennium Development Goals. Both are essential to redress the situation of the most vulnerable. This study provides a comprehensive review of social protection packages in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers and devises an index to evaluate the extent of a country's level of social protection in its development strategy. The findings show that the social protection agenda in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers is more pronounced in countries with higher levels of income and lower levels of ethnic diversity and that social assistance packages are more aligned to higher levels of official development assistance and governance. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) were introduced in 1999 by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund as a requirement for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs) to gain access to debt relief and concessional loans. They signalled a new focus by including a participatory framework of "nationally driven" policies. Employing 81 PRSPs for 58 countries, published during 2000-2008, this paper develops a unique scorecard to evaluate the alignment of policies in PRSPs with three dominant development paradigms. It finds that the New York Consensus, which was forged around the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), is driving the content of PRSPs, while the Washington Consensus and PostWashington Consensus have become secondary influences. This could be the first step in breaking down the hegemony of perceived ideas in the development policy landscape.RÉSUMÉ Les documents de stratégie pour la réduction de la pauvreté (DSRP) ont été introduits en 1999 par la Banque mondiale et le Fonds monétaire international comme exigence à l'égard des Pays pauvres très endettés (PPTE) en contrepartie d'un allègement de leur dette et de prêts à des conditions avantageuses. En mettant l'accent sur un cadre participatif pour la définition de politiques pilotées par le pays lui-même, ces documents annonçaient un changement d'approche. Cet article analyse 81 DSRP de 58 pays publiés entre 2000 et 2008 à l'aide d'une fiche de notation conçue pour évaluer l'alignement des politiques ainsi définies sur trois grands paradigmes de développement. Les résultats montrent que le consensus de New York, qui s'est forgé autour des les Objectifs du développement pour le millénaire, constitue la force principale qui guide le contenu des DSRP tandis que l'influence du consensus de Washington et post-Washington est devenue secondaire. Cela pourrait marquer une première étape dans l'effondrement de l'hégémonie des idées reçues dans le paysage des politiques de développement.

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