Development
Britain has announced the end of new grant aid to India - in future aid will either be technical assistance or investment. I think this is a mistake: the wrong decision, at the wrong time, for the wrong reasons.
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I recently tried to explain to a parliamentary committee why I believe multilateral aid is likely to be more cost-effective than bilateral aid. This post sets out the arguments in a bit more detail.
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I'm in the latest edition of the Guardian Development Podcast, discussing the future of British aid
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The video of a talk I did at the Development Policy Centre at the Crawford School of Public Policy at Australian National University on 9 October 2012.
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The full text of an article in Europe's World by Stephanie Majerowicz and me, commenting on an article by José Antonio Ocampo about the future of the World Bank.
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Diane Coyle talks on the latest edition of Development Drums about her book The Economics of Enough
Britain's National Audit Office (NAO) has published a glowing report on the British Multilateral Aid Review. There are three lessons: the aid review increased aid effectiveness; was hampered by poor data; and will more effective if donors collaborate.
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Owen Barder and Ben Ramalingam look at the implications of complexity for the trend towards results-based management in development cooperation. They argue that complexity provides a powerful reason for pursuing the results agenda, but it has to be done in ways which reflect the context.
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An explanation of why CGD in Europe is starting work on illicit financial flows.
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This second of three blog posts looking at development policy through the lens of complexity thinking considers whether David Cameron's 'golden thread' is good development policy.
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This the first of three blog posts exploring the implications of complexity for development. In my lecture on complexity I argue that development is an emergent property of the economic and social system. This blog post explains what that means.
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CGD in Europe is now embarking on an exciting new programme looking at how various kinds of illicit financial flows affect development and what, if anything, rich countries should be doing about them.
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A blog post linking to an article by Mark Tran in the Guardian. The article quotes me saying: "The risk is that the G8 will think that they can address these issues by earmarking some of their aid programmes and they will not feel under pressure to make the systemic changes which only they can make."
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My 2012 Kapuściński Lecture considered the implications of complexity thinking for development economics and development policy. This post presents an updated version as a narrated online presentation which lasts about 45 minutes.
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Two reasons why I am concerned about plans for a big campaign in 2013 on food, agriculture, hunger, food security and nutrition.
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In the latest edition of Development Drums, Andrea Cornwall of IDS and Prue Clarke of New Narratives explore the relationship between working for women and girls, empowerment and development.
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The small CGD team in Europe tries to keep abreast of what is going on in development policy around Europe, for our own benefit and to share with CGD colleagues. We thought others might be interested to receive our weekly digest of up to a half dozen stories which have caught our eye.
This week’s Europe Development Digest covers global financial havens, EU plans to use drones to track migrants, the resignation of a senior IMF economist partly over the way Europe dominates the leadership selection, legal news on a ‘vulture fund’ case, and new projections from European economists about the future geography of poverty.
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Strong praise for the second 'golden moment': a summit on family planning. But doubts about the format of these large summits.
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Discussing the work of the CGD and Social Finance Development Impact Bonds Working Group.
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Owen Barder is the Europe Director at the Center for Global Development. He writes here about development, economics, politics, computers, running, and anything else that interests him. He also hosts Development Drums.
Tax, trade, transparency … & turfApril 23, 2013
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For the first time ever (World Bank edition)April 19, 2013
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The Europe Development DigestApril 16, 2013
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Are rich countries ‘getting away with murder’ by massaging aid figures?April 11, 2013
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Global wealth inequalityApril 8, 2013
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Waste not, want notApril 1, 2013
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Hello Owen, Stumbled on your website by accident…I’m currently trying to arange a visa for someone I work...May 16, 2013
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Hi all, I have the expereiance that blackberry phones will not work directly with the Ethio-telecom GPRS...April 25, 2013
Hi! The service provider in Ethiopia, Ethio – Telecom states the APN settings are the following: APN : etc.com...April 9, 2013
Interesting ideas, I wrote some thoughts on them here,April 24, 2013
”Today for the first time ever, I felt so relieved after I realized I wasn’t looking out making...April 19, 2013
Barack Obama (2/2013): “So the United States will join with our allies to eradicate such extreme poverty in...April 19, 2013
Owen: Where are we going with this? Is this a refutation of the power law of wealth distribution?April 10, 2013
Hey Abita check out my website as I may need a guide like you to help me run bike tours there, we just did...April 5, 2013
Hey Jeff enjoy the riding there–I have run several bike tours there out of Toronto and I love riding...April 5, 2013
Hi guys I totally disagree with your assessment of the children. I have ridden from Adiss to Lalibela 5...April 5, 2013
Hi Owen The long format works well for me because (like Robb) I enjoy getting into the substance and...April 1, 2013