Aid Effectiveness

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WORKING PAPERS
We Should Be Spending More of Available Aid in Poorer Countries, Not Less
Charles Kenny
January 11, 2021
In the context of an ongoing debate around the role of aid in middle income countries, it is worth revisiting the discussion around aid allocation in general.
Blog Post
Development Leaders Conference 2020: Shaping Collaboration at a Crucial Time
Carin Jämtin
and
Masood Ahmed
December 03, 2020
As development agencies transition from their immediate COVID-19 response towards a medium-term strategy, their leaders see a clear need to rethink some key aspects of their underlying business models. The Development Leaders Conference brought together heads of bilateral development agencies a...
Blog Post
You Say Zambia, I say Ukraine: Development Choices in the Pandemic Era
Homi Kharas et al.
November 30, 2020
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson ruffled aid advocates’ feathers a few months ago by folding the nation’s well-regarded, cabinet-ranking international development department (DfID) into its foreign affairs ministry.
POLICY PAPERS
Horizon 2025—End of the Beginning: Development Cooperation in the Pandemic Age
Homi Kharas et al.
November 30, 2020
COVID-19 and economic responses to it have amplified and changed the nature of development challenges in fundamental ways. Global development cooperation should adapt accordingly.
Blog Post
The UK Foreign and Development Office and Global Public Goods
Charles Kenny
August 24, 2020
The UK is about to merge development and diplomacy in a single department: the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. There are plenty of reasons to be concerned about that, but CGD colleagues have pointed out some opportunities as well. One area where combining the talents of DFID and Foreig...
CGD NOTES
The UK as an Effective Altruist
Euan Ritchie
and
Ian Mitchell
August 10, 2020
The prime minister’s most influential advisor, Dominic Cummings, is a champion of “effective altruism”—the use of evidence and careful reasoning to work out how to maximize the good with a given unit of resources. With the UK government in the midst of a major “Integrated Review” of its foreign, dev...
Blog Post
This Is the Perfect Moment to Redesign UK Aid Spend on Research
Euan Ritchie
and
Charles Kenny
July 23, 2020
A new ICAI report issued this week suggests that large parts of UK aid spending on research and development remain hampered by a design that favors British researcher interests over urgent research topics and capacity prioritized by the world’s poorest countries. The next few months are a perfect op...