I just wrote a two-part series on the changing landscape of international food aid for UN Dispatch – you can read part one here and part two here. Only a few hours after I filed my posts on food aid, I found out that Owen Barder’s latest podcast for Development Drums was an hour-long interview… [Read more…]
August 15, 2009
Interesting exchange this past week with @transitionland on Twitter. She asked: “Does *anyone* really say “I want to save the world”? I’ve never said that. Ever.” What immediately came to mind is that probably only Bono wakes up every morning to that thought. Actually, he probably doesn’t just think about wanting to save the world, but… [Read more…]
July 15, 2009
There has been a bit of a buzz around the recently released British Conservative Party Green Paper on international development, and David Cameron’s party is getting a little bit of heat for some of their policy prescriptions. The report begins by announcing the Party’s good intentions: As well as highlighting the amazing achievements of aid,… [Read more…]
July 12, 2009
Following a G8 meeting where leaders announced a $20 billion commitment to help alleviate hunger and improve food security in the developing world, and a short stop-over in the Vatican to exchange pleasantries with the Pope, Barack Obama traveled to Ghana for his first presidential trip to the African continent. Obama’s visit generated a wave… [Read more…]
June 6, 2009
A recurrent theme in international development is the issue of measuring and reporting aid effectiveness – this topic gets a lot of buzz, and rightly so. Especially in an age of fiscal constraints, it is ever more important to deploy funding to projects that work. There’s a lot of debate about whether official development aid… [Read more…]
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May 4, 2010
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