Writings

Some papers (pdf files)

• Evidence and scale (remarks to the CIFF Board)
• Is Aid a Waste of Money? (article in Significance, the journal of the Royal Statistical Society) (or archive copy)
• Tough on Poverty, Tough on the Causes of Poverty – Europe’s world
• The courts can cut off Assad’s supply line – FT Article
• Let’s not forget that development is more than just CIDA – Article with Lucas Robinson in the Globe and Mail
• CIDA merger with Foreign Affairs may help the poor – interview in Toronto Star
• How to Set Up Email Triage for MS Outlook – December 2012
• Can Aid Work – Written Evidence to the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee
• Show, Don’t Tell – Public Service Review, April 2011
• Whose country is it anyway? Blog on Oaktree Foundation Blog 3 February 2011
• Complexity – the simple path to success in development (Guardian article) 28 January 2011
• Knowledge and Development - presentation to Addis Ababa Share Fair 19 October 2010
• An Open Letter to Aid Skeptics – article in the Center for International Relations Forum Journal
• Governance of the aid system – with Mikaela Gavas, Simon Maxwell and Deborah Johnson
• on Transparency – Atlantic Community 1 April 2010
• Beyond Planning: Markets and Networks for Better Aid (CGD Working Paper 185)
• What is Poverty Reduction? (CGD Working Paper 170)
• Modestly Saving Lives – contribution to openDemocracy 14 December 2009
• My review of Dead Aid by Dambisa Moyo
• Payments for Progress (CGD Working Paper 102) (with Nancy Birdsall)
• Reforming Development Assistance: Experience of the UK (from Brainard – ed)
• Marking Markets for Vaccines – Full Book (with Ruth Levine and Nancy Birdsall)
• Advance Market Commitments: A Policy to Stimulate Investment in Vaccines for Neglected Diseases
  (with Michael Kremer and Heidi Williams)
• Government Cathedrals and Government Bazaars
• Fear of Trying (Public Finance Magazine, August 2006)
• Are the planned increases in aid too much of a good thing? (CGD Working Paper 90)
• A policymakers’ guide to dutch disease (CGD Working Paper 91)
• Risk and Uncertainty (with Ruth Levine) (September 2006)

Other papers on this site

• The 1980 Statement on Overseas Aid
• What sort of conditions should there be on aid?
• 2005 : Passing by on the other side
  • Comparison of aid pledges for 2010 made in 2004 and 2005
• Intellectual Property And Market Failure
  • Public goods defined
• Aid and private donations
• Sickly sweet
• Targets do more harm than good
• Globalisation and business

Presentations

• The Role of the IFIs in the Future Financial Architecture – Presentation to the Nordic-Baltic meeting on multilateral development banks, January 2014
• You say you want a revolution?  Presentation to DFID statisticians and evaluators, November 2013
• Practical Ethical Reflections in the Information Society
  (presentation to the Institute of Business Ethics)
• Presentation on Technical Assistance, DFID Ethiopia, 14 May 2009
• Presentation on Aid Effectiveness, DFID Tanzania, 20 May 2009
• Beyond Planning in aid, presentation to HMT, 25 January 2010
• Public spending in the post bureaucratic age, presentation to HMT, 25 January 2010
• Aid Effectiveness – the new agenda- Donor Assistance Group, Ethiopia, 19 May 2010
• After Busan – Stockholm, 20 January 2012
• What’s wrong with mutual accountability? – Berlin, 9 February 2012