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Aid, income and dutch disease
One argument that aid sceptics like to use – often without really understanding it – is…
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What to read on foreign aid
John Gershman offers a reading list on “What to Read on Foreign Aid” in Foreign Affairs.…
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Why is fragmentation a problem?
Emmanuel Frot and Javier Santiso write about why fragmentation is a problem for international aid: ..…
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Ethiopian Airlines
I was very upset to hear of the loss of an Ethiopian Airlines plane from Lebanon…
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Protect development from party politics
On January 13th, a leader in The Times and Kevin Watkins in The Guardian attacked the…
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It is all decided by a Professor in New York
Jeff Marlow writes in the New York Times about Koraro, a Millennium Village Project village in…
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Google gets its mojo back
When Google decided to set up a censored version of its search engine in China in…
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Lindsay on unpredictability
Lindsay Morgan describes the problem of unpredictable aid: And although more aid, even disbursed on short…
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Poverty porn and fundraising
If you want to raise money for international development you will eventually encounter a dilemma. You…
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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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