Aid Effectiveness

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More from the Series

Blog Post
What I Want to Hear from the UK Development Secretary: How to Improve Whole-of-Government Aid Spending
Owen Barder
April 09, 2018
Successive governments have long felt that UK Department for International Development (DFID) needs to work better with the rest of Whitehall. There have been efforts to join up better in government, sometimes successfully, but there remains a feeling in Whitehall that DFID is too tribal, too protec...
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The Importance of Domestic Resource Mobilization for Debt Sustainability
John Hurley
March 28, 2018
Even for countries that are far away from graduating from foreign aid, the importance of domestic resource mobilization for maintaining macroeconomic stability and sustained economic growth is well documented. A look at the experience of countries that have received HIPC debt relief validates t...
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Whither the US Sovereign Bond Guarantee Program?
John Hurley
March 20, 2018
Perhaps the least noticed, but most impactful, addition to the US foreign assistance toolkit in recent years has been the US sovereign bond guarantee (SBG). However, the Trump administration’s proposed FY 2019 budget leaves out any request for authorization of new SBGs—and it isn’t...
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Reforms amid Reductions? House Panel to Question USAID Administrator Mark Green on FY19 Budget
Sarah Rose
March 20, 2018
Tomorrow, USAID Administrator Mark Green heads to Capitol Hill to defend the Trump administration’s FY 2019 foreign assistance budget request. It won’t be easy. Lawmakers have pushed back hard against the drastic cuts to US global development and humanitarian spending proposed by the adm...
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Last, Best Chance for Food Aid Reform?
Kimberly Ann Elliott
March 15, 2018
Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) and Representative Ed Royce (R-CA) have teamed up with Democratic colleagues Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) and Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) to introduce new legislation that would reform US international food aid to deliver more help to more people in crisis, faster. ...
Blog Post
The Need for New Approaches to Global Health Aid Allocation
Y-Ling Chi et al.
February 20, 2018
Aid allocation has been a topic of much investigation across several fields. In particular, many studies have looked at the patterns of development assistance for health (DAH). For example, a study by Hanlon and colleagues found that regional variations in DAH country allocations were only...
BRIEFS
Can Development Assistance Deter Emigration?
Michael Clemens
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Hannah Postel
February 12, 2018
As waves of migrants have crossed the Mediterranean and the US Southwest border, development agencies have received a de facto mandate: to deter migration from poor countries. Will it work? Here we review the evidence on whether foreign aid has been directed toward these “root causes” in...