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Inequality and the SDG agenda: every victory has its price <\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tNow that inequality has become one of the key SDG issues, all those who have advocated for its inclusion should take note of the drawbacks of this victory.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Has development lost sight of hope?<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe SDGs have brought a surge of hope that is being translated into policies and procedures for \u2018doing\u2019, it is important that this hope does not disappear in the practices of politics and administration or post-development critiques.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Is political economy analysis too challenging for aid donors?<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tPolitical economy analysis lays bare the flaws in technocratic, aid centric approaches to development that have long characterised mainstream practice.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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The two sides of the universality coin<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tHow to really achieve development\u2019s latest buzzword.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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From Monterrey to post-2015<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tWhen rethinking public aid as a catalyst for development-oriented private investment, several elements need to be taken into account.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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More is not always better<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t08 October 2025
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\n\t\t\tIf we want the new global development agenda to be manageable, it is perhaps better to design a small set of end goals similar to the original MDGs, instead of a new wish list.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Unlocking Africa\u2019s economic potential<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t23 July 2025
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\n\t\t\tAfrica is gaining increasing global economic importance, but it has to address logistical and policy impediments to fully benefit from it.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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A window of opportunity for a post-Busan donor<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tAs a \u2018post-Busan\u2019 donor, Spain could act as a strategic channel, providing know-how for collaboration with MICs in development.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Self-interest vs altruism in East Asia\u2019s development aid<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tCriticism of East Asia\u2019s alleged self-interest-led development aid can also be applied to Western donors.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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The Fundamental Things Apply <\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tNorway\u2019s recent international cooperation white paper, Sharing for Prosperity, seems stubbornly non-conformist. For it recommits Norway to some fundamental, if today unfashionable, purposes: for low-income lands, pursuit of growth-with-r…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Nationalising Dignity: Morales\u2019 Adios to USAID<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t07 May 2025
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\n\t\t\tThe expulsion of USAID by Bolivia\u2019s president Evo Morales should should come as no surprise to those following political change in Bolivia.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Inequality: an issue for the 2015 agenda, but also for the aid agenda?<\/a><\/h3>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRen\u00e9 Grotenhuis<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t|
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t23 January 2025
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\n\t\t\tThere are two critical issues in this inequality debate: there is no global benchmark for inequality and no global goals in absolute terms; and the instruments for tackling inequality lie outside traditional aid intervention models.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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‘Value for money’ or ‘Results Obsession Disorder’? <\/a><\/h3>\n

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Moving towards open development<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tAs many of those gathered here in Busan, I feel very excited about the chance we have to collectively shape the way in which development is practiced.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Busan: Yes we could<\/a><\/h3>\n

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The EU going into Busan<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tWhat should the European Union, the world\u2019s biggest aid donor, aim to achieve at Busan?\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Ranking transparency<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tJust 2 weeks before the High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, the global campaign for aid transparency, Publish What You Fund, has released a ranking of the transparency of aid donors.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Climate finance cooperation must be a top priority at Busan<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tRecently released OECD DAC data from the Paris Declaration Survey shows improvements in the ways the international community and partner countries deliver Official Development Assistance (ODA), but this progress has been highly variable. Only one…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Editorial: Mainstreaming global justice<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe future of international aid does not look bright. Development aid has always been surrounded by questions and controversy, but in recent years the tone of the debate has hardened. Sweeping changes are needed if efforts to help the world\u2019s poor…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Beyond the traditional donors<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tCan traditional and new donors agree on best development practices, should they, and if so how will they overcome the many challenges to alignment?\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Background to HLF4<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe 4th High Level Forum on aid effectiveness takes place in Busan, Korea in November. What is the meeting about and how did we get here?\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Bellagio Initiative<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Hearts and minds for ACP-EU relations<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tNeither within the EU nor within ACP countries, the ACP-EU partnership is something that lives in the hearts and minds of citizens.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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The ACP-EU Relationship <\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe ACP Group needs to strengthen itself politically while the EU must be prepared to renew its partnership with ACP countries on equal terms.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Laying the BRICs for a better future<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe ACP has emerged out of a unique relationship with the European Union (EU). However, while the EU needs the ACP’s backing to get support in international governance, and needs its raw materials and markets, the EU is indecisive about continuing…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tAid workers are a beautiful subject for anthropology: they mediate ideas about aid and development and they are the frontline folks that translate programmes into reality. Two books were recently published about them. Anne Meike Fechter and Heathe…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tI do not consider myself to be an expert on development assistance, but perhaps I am something of an expert on international security.The current Dutch government, consisting as it does of a centre-right coalition supported by Geert Wilders\u2019 anti-…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tHumanitarianism today is faced with many challenges. On 2-5 June 2011, the Second World Conference on Humanitarian Studies (WCHS) brought together the best of thinkers and researchers to discuss urgent questions about the changing nature of curren…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tI welcome Andy Sumner\u2019s lucid article on the fact that most of the world’s poor now live in middle-income countries and what that means for development.I agree with Sumner that this brings microeconomic issues, inequality in particular, to the for…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tI am a sociologist and the director of Centro de Estudios de la Realidad Economica y Social (CERES), a small Bolivian policy research institute. Like most such organizations, CERES has always been heavily dependent on aid. I have experienced and r…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tUN summits follow a more or less predetermined route. Heads of state and government and heads of major international organizations all come and make their declarations. In most of them, there is nothing really new or interesting. Now and then, how…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tOne possible view of this story is that it is just \u2018gossip\u2019, what development aid officials chat about after office hours over a beer. Shouldn\u2019t a serious magazine like The Broker focus on the real challenges of the Paris Declaration and not distr…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe Dragon\u2019s Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa, by Deborah Brautigam. Oxford University Press, 2009, 397 pp.A review by Daniel Large\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tOn 18 January 2010, the Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) presented its report \u2018Less pretension, more ambition: development aid that makes a difference\u2019 to the Dutch Minister for Development Cooperation, Mr Bert Koenders\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tComplexity approaches have a lot to offer the aid business, if it is not already too late. We asked Nils Boesen to comment on the blog postings from a recent conference.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tIs aid in crisis? Probably it is, but only in its current form. Because there will always be people who want to care for others in our interconnected world, whether for reasons of solidarity or \u2018enlightened self-interest\u2019. But, for the sake of arg…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThis blog discusses the new turn in Germany after the latest elections in September 2009.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThrough his illustrations and cartoons, Quique will explore a number of development issues and debates. He will share his impressions on new research, events and report from around the world through matter-of-fact illustrations, irony, sarcasm and…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe Development Studies Association , which works to connect and promote the development research community in UK and Ireland, will hold it’s annual conference at the University of Ulster in Belfast from 2 \u2013 4th September.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tPhilanthrocapitalism: How the Rich Can Save the World, by Matthew Bishop and Michael Green. Bloomsbury Press, 2008.A review by William Dowell.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tBelgian development aid was initially once driven by self-interest. Over the last fifteen years it has made a more resolute effort to genuinely contribute to development.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tOver the last four months, two events have changed global prospects profoundly. The financial crisis has done more than just shake the seemingly most powerful and inviolable countries, companies and institutions in the world. It has definitely KO\u2019…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tIn January and May, a group of eight intellectuals, critical scientists and practitioners \u2013 each from a different country and background \u2013 examined the main elements of a new approach to development in a brainstorming session. The group members fo…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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