 www.freeimages.co.ukFrom its inception the Center for Global Development has made its mark on issues of aid and aid effectiveness. Many of our staff and non-resident fellows have been key contributors to a lively debate on the question of whether and how aid and the aid system work. This page brings together published and unpublished work in which authors propose new thinking about aid and the system, and new approaches to operationalizing aid transfers. The focus is on innovations, whether in ideas or operations. We aim to speed and broaden access to new ideas, and thereby increase the likelihood that good new ideas are turned into better aid programs—public and private, bilateral and multilateral, traditional and new donors.
www.freeimages.co.uk From its inception the Center for Global Development has made its mark on issues of aid and aid effectiveness. Many of our staff and non-resident fellows have been key contributors to a lively debate on the question of whether and how aid and the aid system work. This page brings together published and unpublished work in which authors propose new thinking about aid and the system, and new approaches to operationalizing aid transfers. The focus is on innovations, whether in ideas or operations. We aim to speed and broaden access to new ideas, and thereby increase the likelihood that good new ideas are turned into better aid programs—public and private, bilateral and multilateral, traditional and new donors.
In addition to including work by CGD staff and material that we commission, we are pleased to include in this special collection, at our discretion, papers and essays prepared outside the Center. We will also publish commentary on relevant works published elsewhere, and non-CGD events that appeal to those interested in questions of aid architecture and delivery.
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This paper assesses the challenges of applying COD Aid in the health sector. After clarifying how COD Aid differs from results-based financing approaches, the paper presents four key characteristics for designing a successful agreement. It discusses features of the health sector and foreign aid...
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This report takes a look at the Obama administration's FY2012 budget request and congressional reaction to gauge the potential for implementing foreign aid reforms as spelled out in the administration's policy documents.
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Senior Fellow Liliana Rojas-Suarez was interviewed by CNN en Español on the European Central Bank’s (ECB) recent purchases of bonds from Italy and Spain. She notes that the size and duration of the intervention is important in determining its efficacy. Without a clear commitment by the ECB to...
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Shafik highlights a key issue for aid practitioners: donors and recipients need the freedom to take risks, to experiment with new approaches, and to learn from failure as well as success. She emphasizes that evaluation and learning depend on transparency to allow citizens of recipient countries to...
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Severino and Ray envision a new conceptual framework to manage the complexity of current international collaboration in development assistance.
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Has technology boosted the ability of citizens in African countries to influence their governments? This week, I'm joined by Rakesh Rajani, founder and head of Twaweza, an initiative that promotes transparency and accountability in Tanzania and other countries in East Africa. His organization has...
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My guest this week is Owen Barder, a visiting fellow here at the Center for the Global Development and the director of the AidInfo project at Development Initiatives, a UK-based NGO. Owen's current work focuses on improving the transparency of the international aid system—making it easier to know...
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In this working paper, Owen Barder raises fundamental questions about the purpose of aid transfers. For many donors the purpose is "poverty reduction" in the narrow sense of growth that reduces poverty. Barder argues that such a focus ignores key trade-offs, such as between reducing current and...
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In this paper, part of the Innovations in Aid series, Jean-Michel Severino and Olivier Ray describe shifts in the objectives of overseas development assistance (ODA) over time and conclude that it is time to put the concept itself to bed—in favor of what they propose should be called “Global...
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This paper assesses the challenges of applying COD Aid in the health sector. After clarifying how COD Aid differs from results-based financing approaches, the paper presents four key characteristics for designing a successful agreement. It discusses features of the health sector and foreign aid...
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This report takes a look at the Obama administration's FY2012 budget request and congressional reaction to gauge the potential for implementing foreign aid reforms as spelled out in the administration's policy documents.
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In this working paper, Owen Barder raises fundamental questions about the purpose of aid transfers. For many donors the purpose is "poverty reduction" in the narrow sense of growth that reduces poverty. Barder argues that such a focus ignores key trade-offs, such as between reducing current and...
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Shafik highlights a key issue for aid practitioners: donors and recipients need the freedom to take risks, to experiment with new approaches, and to learn from failure as well as success. She emphasizes that evaluation and learning depend on transparency to allow citizens of recipient countries to...
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In this paper, part of the Innovations in Aid series, Jean-Michel Severino and Olivier Ray describe shifts in the objectives of overseas development assistance (ODA) over time and conclude that it is time to put the concept itself to bed—in favor of what they propose should be called “Global...
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Severino and Ray envision a new conceptual framework to manage the complexity of current international collaboration in development assistance.
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Senior Fellow Liliana Rojas-Suarez was interviewed by CNN en Español on the European Central Bank’s (ECB) recent purchases of bonds from Italy and Spain. She notes that the size and duration of the intervention is important in determining its efficacy. Without a clear commitment by the ECB to...
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My guest this week is Owen Barder, a visiting fellow here at the Center for the Global Development and the director of the AidInfo project at Development Initiatives, a UK-based NGO. Owen's current work focuses on improving the transparency of the international aid system—making it easier to know...
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Has technology boosted the ability of citizens in African countries to influence their governments? This week, I'm joined by Rakesh Rajani, founder and head of Twaweza, an initiative that promotes transparency and accountability in Tanzania and other countries in East Africa. His organization has...
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Owen Barder, Senior Fellow and Director for Europe Owen Barder's work focuses on transparency and accountability in aid and the political economy of development policies. As director for Europe, he is leading CGD's effort to internationalize its policy outreach. He was previously a British civil servant in a career spanning more than 20 years and...
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Nancy Birdsall, President An internationally recognized expert on the impact of rich-country policies on poor people in developing countries, Nancy Birdsall is the author, co-author, or editor of more than a dozen books and over 100 articles in scholarly journals and monographs, published in English and Spanish. She is the...
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The Future of Development Finance - Working Paper 250
- May 10, 2011
Shafik highlights a key issue for aid practitioners: donors and recipients need the freedom to take risks, to experiment with new approaches, and to learn from failure as well as success. She emphasizes that evaluation and learning depend on transparency to allow citizens of recipient countries to...
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What Is Poverty Reduction? - Working Paper 170
- Apr 21, 2009
In this working paper, Owen Barder raises fundamental questions about the purpose of aid transfers. For many donors the purpose is "poverty reduction" in the narrow sense of growth that reduces poverty. Barder argues that such a focus ignores key trade-offs, such as between reducing current and...
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