April 30, 2009
After 100 Days, What About Development?
President Obama has generally gotten high marks for his performance after 100 days in office. But the development community has to be disappointed. Why?
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April 8, 2009
Innovations in Aid: Beginning with an End to ODA?
This is a joint posting with Ayah Mahgoub
To all those concerned about the future of foreign aid, please take the opportunity to read the works included in CGD’s new Innovations in Aid mini-series. The first paper in this series “The End of ODA” is by Jean-Michel Severino and Olivier Ray, and though it was started before the current global financial crisis reached its height, it is more relevant today than ever before. In this paper Severino and Ray describe shifts in the objectives of ODA (official development assistance) over time, and conclude that it is time to reform the concept and rename it “Global Policy Finance”.
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