I’m quoted in a blog post at the Economist today about aid transparency:
Ms Greening’s strategy is the requirement that any organisation receiving DfID funds publish clear information about where the money is going. This far-reaching transparency initiative is potentially a “game-changer”, says Owen Barder, a senior fellow and director for Europe at the Center for Global Development, a Washington, DC-based think tank.
In an article for the Guardian’s (new) Global Development Professionals Network I argue that development policy in the 21st century needs be about more than administering aid.
Sir Tim Lankester talked about the Pergau Dam affair at this event co-hosted by CGD in Europe and the Institute for Government. Watch the video here.
Transport costs for US food aid programmes can be as high as 97% of the total cost of the aid.
There has been bad news about the effectiveness of the leading candidate for a malaria vaccine. Has the time has come for donors to make an Advance Market Commitment?
My laptop recently decided that when I pressed the ‘shut down’ button I really wanted it to ‘reboot’.
Britain has announced the end of new grant aid to India – in future aid will either be technical assistance or investment. I think this is a mistake: the wrong decision, at the wrong time, for the wrong reasons.
I recently tried to explain to a parliamentary committee why I believe multilateral aid is likely to be more cost-effective than bilateral aid. This post sets out the arguments in a bit more detail.
I’m in the latest edition of the Guardian Development Podcast, discussing the future of British aid
The video of a talk I did at the Development Policy Centre at the Crawford School of Public Policy at Australian National University on 9 October 2012.