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Aid can make lives better, project concludes


SciDev.Net, 30 July 2013

Tony Addison, Chief Economist and Deputy Director of UNU-WIDER, interviewed about ReCom programme.

"Foreign aid can significantly improve economic, social and human development, but practitioners must be open about failure if it is to succeed in the future, concludes a three-year research programme.
 
Research and Communication on Foreign Aid (ReCom), a project of the UN University's World Institute for Development Economics Research, attempts to replace the "unhelpful and polarised debate" on whether aid works with one firmly based on evidence, says deputy director Tony Addison."

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Aid can make lives better, project concludes

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