Dr David Reddy is CEO of Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV), a product development partnership...
Category - Global aid issues
Capacity building: how to do better
In my previous post, I argued that efforts by the donor community at capacity building had not in...
Weekend links: Iran deal, catalytic aid, Chinese well-being...
It’s been a massive week for foreign policy. While a Grexit appears to have been...
Capacity building: important but unsuccessful
Capacity building is a long-standing aspect of development efforts that I think we can agree has...
A welcome new commission on the measurement of global poverty
The World Bank’s International Poverty Line (IPL) is the most influential metric for tracking...
New US government website ups the ante on aid transparency
ForeignAssistance.gov, the US government’s central repository to consolidate official information...
China’s emergence as a development leader: a historical...
The signing of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) agreement last week at the Great...
Weekend links: Tehran, the nature of the state...
Starting with opportunities possibly squandered, Barack Obama sounds a pessimistic note on a...
Remote data collection in Papua New Guinea: an aid to policy...
I often hear people say in Papua New Guinea (PNG) that it’s difficult to get accurate data. This...
Should aid practitioners worry about economic inequality?
Is economic inequality important for aid work? This was the question I asked myself when I saw the...