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Do elites capture foreign aid?Does foreign aid end up in the pockets of elites instead of contributing to inclusive economic development? A recently published journal article...
Does foreign aid end up in the pockets of elites instead of contributing to inclusive economic development? A recently published journal article...
Democracy is having a hard time. In India, once the world’s largest democracy, the pandemic has hastened the country’s slide toward authoritarianism...
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The UNU-WIDER research programme on foreign aid (ReCom) began in 2010, in a period of strong aid scepticism. Dambisa Moyo’s well-known book, Dead Aid...
Although sometimes over used, the word 'crisis' accurately describes many challenges of today's world, such as climage change, war and refugees...
The international community has a new set of development goals. They reflect Africa’s aspirations much more closely than the Millennium Development...
For many people, aid fungibility is a misunderstood topic—it is mostly confused with the idea of corruption. Aid fungibility, on the other hand, is...
In the paper 'Aid reimagined: results from an elite survey on perceptions of progress, capacity, and development co-operation', we tabulated responses...
The new and improved Global Partnership monitoring framework for effective development co-operation, launched in 2022, is now fully in motion, with...