Aid Effectiveness

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Blog Post
UK Aid Watchdog to CDC: Time to be More Accountable, More Transparent on Development Finance
Vijaya Ramachandran
and
Arthur Baker
March 28, 2019
The Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) issued a report this week on the performance of CDC–the UK’s development finance institution–in low-income and fragile states. ICAI gives CDC an Amber/Red rating on its performance, which means “unsatisfactory achieve...
Blog Post
To Brand or Not to Brand? with Gyude Moore – CGD Podcast
Holly Shulman
March 07, 2019
Gyude Moore, former Minister of Public Works in Liberia and current visiting fellow at CGD, on aid branding, what China does differently, and what innovation could help developing countries save big on infrastructure. 
CGD NOTES
A Short-Sighted Vision for Global Britain
Owen Barder et al.
March 01, 2019
There has been a resurgence in calls to reconsider the cross-party consensus in the UK on foreign aid and development. The main political parties are all committed to spending 0.7 percent of gross national income on aid, to using the internationally agreed definition of aid, and to maintaining a sep...
POLICY PAPERS
UK Aid Quality Indicators
Caitlin McKee et al.
December 18, 2018
This paper discusses the United Kingdom’s foreign aid quality based on an updated assessment of the Quality of Official Development Assistance (QuODA) published by the Center for Global Development. We find UK aid quality has decreased from 2012 to 2016 and now ranks 15th out of the 27 countri...
Blog Post
UK Aid: Which Departments are Missing Their Transparency Target?
Arthur Baker
and
Ian Mitchell
December 17, 2018
The UK’s 2015 National Aid Strategy committed all departments to be “Very Good” or “Good” on Publish What You Fund’s Aid Transparency Index (“the Index”). We look at a leading indicator of transparency and conclude that, beyond DFID, progress has been ...
Blog Post
How Do You Measure Aid Quality and Who Ranks Highest?
Ian Mitchell
and
Caitlin McKee
November 15, 2018
Donors have lost their focus on aid effectiveness in the last decade, limiting aid’s impact. Aid effectiveness still matters enormously to the world’s poor; donors should revisit effective aid principles and agree measures which take better account of today’s challenges and context...
Blog Post
Is the Donor Agenda for the SDGs Making Aid a Tool of Inequity?
Pamela Jakiela
and
Charles Kenny
November 13, 2018
It is now abundantly clear that aid money will provide only a fraction of the resources needed to reach the Sustainable Development Goals. That realization came early on, and it was a central theme of the Addis Financing for Development conference of 2015, held before the SDGs were even signed.