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
- Intellectual Property And Market Failure
- 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