Commentary

This is the fourth in a series of five blogs on the Biden administration’s global development agenda over the past four years. This blog focuses on the Biden administration’s record on pillar 4 of its global development agenda, to "Promote Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance and Address Fragilit...

Just over a year ago, the Future of Global Health Initiatives process concluded with the publication of the Lusaka Agenda, which recognized that the current global health financing architecture needs to change. It emphasized the need for donor funds to align and use government systems, and to drive ...

Development cooperation will come under more pressure in 2025, with aid budgets shrinking across key European donors. What are the key issues that will likely shape the EU’s approach to international partnerships, and opportunities and challenges for the bloc on development cooperation?

Barely any refugee hosting was counted as aid before 2014: despite the UK hosting significant numbers of asylum seekers. What would have happened if it had been? And should Prime Minster Keir Starmer and Chancellor Rachel Reeves should follow Blair and Brown's example?

At the Global Education Meeting which was held in in Fortaleza a few weeks ago, governments around the world made the latest in a long line of commitments to "remove barriers to gender equality in and through education". But is this all just cheap talk? The value of educating girls might be one of t...

This is the third in a series of five blogs on the Biden administration’s global development agenda. This blog focuses on the Biden administration’s record on pillar 3: Decarbonize the Economy and Increase Climate Resilience, and offers an assessment of how the next Trump administration could affect...

Climate finance is a disaster. COP29 ended with a hotly-contested and almost universally-loathed agreement for rich countries to provide $300 billion each year to developing countries, to defray the costs of adapting to and mitigating the effects of anthropogenic climate change. Commentators from th...