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Markets and aid
I am grateful to Oxfam’s Duncan Green for his fair and thoughtful review of my paper…
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One day, all this will seem very strange
This post is cross-posted on the aidinfo blog. My colleague Judith Randel has made a very…
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Pop singer makes two excellent points on development
I know it is fashionable to denounce celebrities who get in involved in international development, but…
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The universal cynics’ answer to why your aid project won’t work
Whenever anybody makes a suggestion for improving foreign assistance, there is a long queue of vested…
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“Don’t let anyone tell you that what’s right is impossible”
Michael Clemens from the Center for Global Development talks about immigration – which he describes as…
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“Dead Aid is a work of self-flagellating simplicity”
In Business Day, Adekeye Adebajo, the executive director of the Centre for Conflict Resolution, Cape Town,…
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Getting deliveries right this Christmas
My sister was sent this card. I thought it was funny. Please do send a goat…
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Linking aid to results: why are some development workers anxious?
The Center for Global Development is working on an idea which they call Cash on Delivery…
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Cash on Delivery Aid: Response to CAFOD questions
A few years ago, Nancy Birdsall and I proposed that donors might consider a scheme to…