Possibly the biggest success story in development over the past 20 years has been the global...
Category - Aid effectiveness
Should aid workers lead comfortable lives?
In May last year a friend lent me their jeep while they went home to Australia for a holiday. Large...
UK aid: will it hit 0.7% next year?
In the past few weeks the Devpolicy blog has been highlighting the sobering trend of recent...
In Afghanistan, expectations without obligations?
Iraq is the canary in the coalmine for the Western state building effort and as such should not be...
Results, value for money and the aid budget
On 8 May the government announced a ‘pause’ in the growth of the aid budget. There has been quite a...
The need for more rigor in AusAID’s project evaluations
Aid effectiveness has become the mantra of the day. Aid donors demand it, program implementers...
Meanwhile in Canada: what future for aid?
As in Australia, so the Canada budget, brought down a month ago, was preceded by intense...
The effects of aid dependence and the recommendations of the...
The World Bank draft Discussion Note ‘Pacific Futures’, July 2011 (available here), offers some new...
Weak on quantity, strong on quality: the 2012 Australian aid...
Are we serious about 0.5? The 2012-13 Australian aid budget, delivered last night, pressed the...
Effectiveness reforms in the 2012 aid budget
While most attention will be focused on its numbers, the 2012 aid budget was also important for a...