Category: Transparency

Follow the money: illicit financial flows

All that glisters: the golden thread and complexity

Follow the money: illicit financial flows

Complexity and development [presentation and podcast]

Could ‘Development Impact Bonds’ work?

Your hustings for the EBRD President

World Bank gets open; Google not so much
This blog post first appeared on the Center for Global Development Views from the Center on March 30, 2012.
The World Bank has responded to concerns about its recent agreement with Google with a welcome announcement that it will … Go to www.owen.org to read the rest

Choosing a new President of the World Bank
Nominations for the head of the World Bank have now closed, and there are three candidates:
- Jim Kim, nominated by the United States; President of Dartmouth College, former head of HIV at the World Health Organization, and a founder

Don’t be evil (World Bank & Google edition)

What are the results agenda?

Warming to the Open Government Partnership
This joint post with Stephanie Majerowicz first appeared on the Views from the Center blog at the Center for Global Development
… Go to www.owen.org to read the rest Read the full post »“The defining division these days is increasingly: open or closed? Are we open to the changing world? Or do

The open data revolution comes to aid
This blog post first appeared on the aidinfo site.
More than two thousand delegates have gathered today in Busan, South Korea, for the fourth installment of a succession of meetings aimed at making aid more effective.
There has been … Go to www.owen.org to read the rest
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Will donors hide behind China?
Will the largest aid donors hide behind China to excuse their inability to make substantial improvements in foreign aid? How can Busan balance the desire to be more universal with the pressing need for real changes in the way aid … Go to www.owen.org to read the rest
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Effective and transparent donors
In two weeks there will be a huge international meeting on aid effectiveness in Busan, South Korea. Ban Ki-moon and Hillary Clinton will be among the two thousand delegates who gather together to discuss improvements in how aid is delivered. … Go to www.owen.org to read the rest
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What would Google do? (Aid effectiveness edition)
This post first appeared on the CGD Rethinking US Foreign Assistance blog.
Information, not coordination, is the key to aid effectiveness. Some donors such as USAID are becoming interested in a more decentralized ‘Google Maps’ approach to aid coordination, to … Go to www.owen.org to read the rest
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Power of Information Conference
Here is my talk at the Power of Information Conference about open aid data.
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Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow
The Center for Global Development, where I work, has a shiny new transparency policy. From now on, our presumption is that when authors post publications on cgdev.org that involves quantitative analysis, they will also post the data and computer … Go to www.owen.org to read the rest
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In school not learning
George Bush famously asked, ‘Is our children learning?’. That’s also the question by Uwezo, a coalition of NGOs working in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Their report published today makes dismal reading about the quality of schools.
First, a word … Go to www.owen.org to read the rest
Read the full post »Appointing the next Managing Director of the IMF
Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been accused of a horrible crime. Like everyone else he is entitled to the presumption of innocence until proven guilty.
We may, however, soon find ourselves looking for a new Managing Director of the IMF, either … Go to www.owen.org to read the rest
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