Over the years, this new field of law enjoyed a marginal reputation, but started going mainstream in the mid-1990s. There is extensive influence of external factors including personal and political influences.

For discussion of powers granted to an Attorney-in-Fact, see Power of attorney. The degree is generally only offered at the very top law schools, which typically accept only 4 or 5 students into their program each year. The protection afforded by LLCs and limited partnerships is derived from the concept of the charging order limitation, addressed in more detail below.

An enrichment of public sector expertise in planning and budgeting through staff trainings and attracting technical expertise by revising public pay scales is essential to make decision making more rational, evidence-based and justifiable, and to reduce dependency on external agencies for technical support. The most accurate poverty indices would be computed from household consumption data. The role of Finance was described as being "restricted to identifying multiplicity of program activities and determining burden of recurrent cost within the proposed projects".