Articles tagged with: Index of Global Philanthropy
Indexing quality
While both the Homi Kharas/Blum Brookings summary and the Index of Global Philanthropy focus solely on quantity, the Center for Global Development’s Commitment to Development Index (CDI) attempts to incorporate aspects of aid quality. Since ”aid …
Remittances: A Measure of U.S. Support for Development?
The Index of Global Philanthropy 2008 (mentioned in my previous post) tries to take a comprehensive approach to tracking funding flows and has developed a measure called “U.S. economic engagement.” It includes official development assistance (ODA); …
How Much Really?
The private giving numbers cited in the Brookings report of the last post come from an essay by Homi Kharas, The New Reality of Aid. Kharas sifts through the published data to estimate just how much …
