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Alex De Waal on The Beginning of the End for ODA?
Alex De Waal writes: The last ten years has been a remarkable experiment in using official…
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Microfinance Open Book Blog
David Roodman at the Center for Global Development has begun an “open book” about microfinance. He…
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Latest Development Drums online
The latest edition of Development Drums is now online. I fear it may not be of…
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Accelerating aid disbursement in a financial crisis
Interesting idea from Homi Kharas at the Brookings Institution That is why the G20 should consider…
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Seen while running
Our Sunday runs start on Entoto, the mountain to the edge of Addis Ababa. We start…
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Alex Singleton – wrong as usual
Alex Singleton is the man who called himself the Globalisation Institute for a while, which he…
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Africa policy: should it be more hippocratic and less hypocritical?
Jean Herskovits says that the Obama administration should adopt a hippocratic Africa policy The past decade…
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Aid and institutions
According to Iqbal Quadir in the Wall Street Journal Aid empowers bureaucracies, promotes statism, and weakens…
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And so it starts
Ireland announces aid cuts. Value of UK aid falls. Quadruple whammy for developing countries now beginning…
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