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Blog Post

The Greek Tragedy of America and International Finance
Charles Kenny
February 19, 2020
Increasingly, Washington views international financial organizations as weapons in the global struggle for the neoliberal economic model against China’s state-led approach to development. And often, the international financial institutions are the battlefield itself, in a conflict over voting s...
Blog Post

Cutting Aid is Still A Big Deal: Why We Should Pay Attention to the FY21 Budget Request
Erin Collinson
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Jocilyn Estes
February 18, 2020
President Trump sent his fourth budget request to Congress last week—once again including steep cuts to foreign aid spending. We dug in to explore it.
BRIEF

Managing Better: What All of Us Can Do to Encourage Aid Success
Dan Honig
February 05, 2020
Management by way of top-down controls and targets sometimes gets in the way of aid donors’ aims, undermining project success. These unhelpful controls often stem from a need to account for performance; legislatures or executive boards induce agencies to exercise tight process controls and ori...
POLICY PAPER

Actually Navigating by Judgment: Towards a New Paradigm of Donor Accountability Where the Current System Doesn’t Work
Dan Honig
February 05, 2020
This paper explores how donors can move towards greater Navigation by Judgment, highlighting the actions people inside and outside aid agencies can work to make change—encouraging more Navigation by Judgment on the margin, starting today.