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Transitioning Away from Aid: The Pressure is On to Kickstart Meaningful Global Dialogue
Alice Sabino et al.
January 17, 2020
In low-and middle-income countries, the health sector is under pressure to expand the coverage of services while also increasing the domestic resources funding them. Countries are transitioning away from aid and coordinated action is critical to ensure this change does not hinder the ...
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Mind the Gaps: Takeaways from Emerging Research and Policy Implications for Aid Transition in Health and Development
Amanda Glassman et al.
December 10, 2019
As countries grow economically, governments face rapidly growing demands for quality, affordable, accessible, and equitable healthcare and other social services. At the same time, many middle-income countries face the prospect of transitioning away from donor aid, adding pressure to already-constrai...
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What Do the UK Election Manifestos Mean for Development?
Arthur Baker et al.
November 28, 2019
With the UK General Election just two weeks away, we know that international development is a high priority issue for our blog-reading voters. We have examined each of the main party’s manifestos and analysed their international development commitments.
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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 ...