Articles in Foreign Aid
by Sherine Jayawickrama
Steven Lawry’s five-part series on U.S. Philanthropy’s Shrinking Amibition has provided a lot of interesting food for thought. His analysis and arguments have caused me to reflect on how this set of issues …
Dambisa Moyo made a stop at the Harvard Kennedy School on Monday to talk about her book Dead Aid. The book is creating a lot of buzz. I now understand why. Moyo’s message is simple, …
by Tony Pipa
Over 2,000 pages, 500 contributors, and 20 reports: The Center for U.S. Global Engagement recently released a “report of reports” summarizing the various calls to elevate global development in U.S. foreign policy and …
I am beginning to like this blogging thing. I must confess that I had predicted that my first post would end up lost in a cyber black hole. But no – quite the contrary! To …
The blog has been silent for a while as we’ve undergone a transition at the Hauser Center. I’m delighted to announce that Sherine Jayawickrama, who’s served in a variety of leadership positions with CARE USA …
During our seminar with Duncan Green and Lant Pritchett last Friday, we revisited the question of NGOs providing services that governments are expected to provide – thereby undermining the development of effective states. This is …
(I originally posted this on Tuesday 11/11/08 and it mysteriously disappeared, so I’m reposting. Unless there’s been foul play from a new philanthropist acolyte, I can only chalk it up to a site glitch. Apologies …
A continuing theme on which I’ve commented several times (links here, here, and here) concerns the increasing share of private resources in development aid. Sam Worthington, the president and CEO of InterAction, the leading coalition …
While working through a backlog of reading I came across this post by Lucy Bernholz* on Philanthropy 2173, in which she characterizes “foreign aid” as “international philanthropy” while referencing Reinventing Foreign Aid, a new volume …
While I have some qualms about the methodology behind the data, it seems clear that private resources for international development are growing rapidly, and are beginning to rival official development aid (ODA).
This could portend a …
