Aid Effectiveness

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More from the Series

Blog Post
How We Can Score Development Agencies on Evaluation and Learning Systems
Catherine Blampied et al.
January 14, 2020
The capacity for donors to evaluate and learn from development activities is crucial for supporting evidence-based decision-making and ultimately, aid effectiveness. This blog post sets out a new approach to scoring agencies on their evaluation and learning and are keen to get feedback on the propos...
Blog Post
What US Government Initiative Do All Three 2019 Economics Nobel Winners Like? (Hint: It’s at USAID.)
David Evans
and
Charles Kenny
November 01, 2019
It’s rare that good ideas in economics get such strong bipartisan political support in Washington. Hopefully that’s a sign of a secure future for DIV.
Blog Post
Money Can’t Buy You “Country Ownership”
William Savedoff
October 15, 2019
Efforts to make aid more effective in the last two decades have given prominence to "country ownership." With true country ownership, aid is supposed to follow the priorities of recipient countries, rather than those of the funders. Yet funders have their priorities too. So recipients and ...
WORKING PAPERS
What Is “Country Ownership”? A Formal Exploration of the Aid Relationship
William Savedoff
October 11, 2019
This paper illustrates the tradeoff between country ownership and funders’ priorities with a formal model in which aid is governed by a contract to produce a jointly desired outcome. The model generalizes the Principal-Agent approaches for studying aid which treat countries as having multiple ...
POLICY PAPERS
Five Principles for Use of Aid in Subsidies to the Private Sector
Charles Kenny
October 09, 2019
There is a significant and ongoing ramp-up in support for explicitly subsidized official development finance to the private sector around the world, but its role remains poorly defined. Lessons from the aid effectiveness literature as a whole and principles on effective use of aid suggest the need f...
CGD NOTES
Five Takeaways on the Future of Humanitarian Reform
Jeremy Konyndyk
August 07, 2019
The world’s humanitarian aid architecture is growing outdated. Relief programs are most effective when they are integrated, locally owned, and demand driven. But humanitarian action in the 21st century remains constrained by a 20th-century aid model.
Blog Post
How the UK Treasury Can Allocate £15 Billion of Aid to “Greatest Effect”
Ian Mitchell
and
Arthur Baker
July 30, 2019
Last week, the new UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson made sweeping changes to government ministers. Below we set out the limitations of the last spending review—and five ways to do better.