This joint post with Stephanie Majerowicz first appeared on the Views from the Center blog at the Center for Global Development “The defining division these days is increasingly: open or closed? Are we open to the changing world? Or do we see its menace, but not its possibilities?” —Tony Blair, A Read more…
This blog post first appeared on the Media and Government site. It suggests that new media is not just a faster and 24 hour news channel. The political economy of media is changing in three important ways.
This blog post first appeared on the aidinfo site. More than two thousand delegates have gathered today in Busan, South Korea, for the fourth installment of a succession of meetings aimed at making aid more effective. There has been significant progress since the meeting in Accra in 2008 towards improving transparency of Read more…
Will the largest aid donors hide behind China to excuse their inability to make substantial improvements in foreign aid? How can Busan balance the desire to be more universal with the pressing need for real changes in the way aid is given? Much of the development policy world converges on Read more…
Bart (eating injera and wot): “I wish I lived in Ethiopia”. Lisa: “Exotic. Vegetarian. I can mention it in a college essay. Mom: this is amazing!”. Simpsons Ethiopian Restaurant from Folu Aladelusi on Vimeo.
In two weeks there will be a huge international meeting on aid effectiveness in Busan, South Korea. Ban Ki-moon and Hillary Clinton will be among the two thousand delegates who gather together to discuss improvements in how aid is delivered. Though David Cameron and Barack Obama said (in a joint statement) that they Read more…
This post first appeared on the CGD Rethinking US Foreign Assistance blog. Information, not coordination, is the key to aid effectiveness. Some donors such as USAID are becoming interested in a more decentralized ‘Google Maps’ approach to aid coordination, to facilitate well-informed decisions by people on the ground. For this Read more…
This joint post with David Roodman first appeared on the Guardian Poverty Matters blog. Does Britain’s remarkable political consensus supporting foreign aid obscure a more ambiguous overall footprint in the developing world?Though by no means unanimous, Britain’s cross-party agreement to protect the aid programme from budget cuts is admirable. It reflects an Read more…
