Some fascinating new experimental research (albeit quasi-experimental in parts) from Northern...
Category - Global aid issues
Child marriage in emergencies: new evidence from the Syrian...
A new report [pdf] from CARE published last week makes a strong case that the issue of child...
Sticker shock: what the AIIB will cost the Australian aid program
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) membership debate was largely a foreign policy...
Innovation in development… is it worth the hype?
Readers of this blog will be all too familiar with the Government’s $1bn cut to aid for 2015-16. In...
Weekend links: humanitarian aid, two fearless advocates, Saudi...
Foreign Affairs this week published an article authored by David Miliband and Ravi Gurumurthy – the...
NZ aid reviewed: doing alright, however…
The 2015 DAC Peer Review of the New Zealand Aid Programme is out today. It’s a balanced report and...
Weekend links: air conditioning, the GBD Study, behavioural...
Add air conditioning units to the list of items that can provide unexpected insights into the state...
The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2015: mixed progress...
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recently released its 2015 State of Food Insecurity in...
Funding to multilateral organisations hits a new high
According to new OECD analysis, funding for multilateral organisations from the member countries of...
The ups and downs of New Zealand aid: budget 2015
There was a time when I thought having Murray McCully as a foreign minister was the worst possible...