Blog

Donors increasingly speak of locally led aid response, but often do not walk the walk. Case in point is the United States Agency for International...

• Donors
• Funding
• community participation

Working Paper

For decades now, Western development agencies and donors have been castigated for their colonial biases in providing aid to Africa. It is well established that donors provide considerably more foreign aid to their former colonies relative to other...

• Colonialism
• Foreign aid
• Donors

Book Chapter

Part of Book Mozambique at a Fork in the Road

• Aid effectiveness
• Donors
• Foreign policy

Working Paper

As a sovereign country, Mozambique initially relied on international solidarity and managed its donor relations well. Donor dependency entailed some loss of agency for the government as it allowed donors to challenge its capacity but never its...

• Aid effectiveness
• Donors
• Foreign policy

Policy Brief

The questions of whether aid has impact and is effective have been the subject of considerable attention. This thematic issue brings together nine studies that speak to the diverse ways in which aid affects development outcomes including, but not...

• Aid effectiveness
• Aid and growth
• Development aid

Working Paper

This paper critically reviews evidence on ‘thinking and working politically’ in development. Scholars and practitioners have increasingly recognised that development is fundamentally political, and efforts are underway to develop more politically...

• Aid effectiveness
• Donors
• Evidence

Journal Special Issue

• Aid effectiveness
• Aid and growth
• Development aid

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Aid Impact and Effectiveness

• Donors
• Fragile states
• Climate change

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Aid Impact and Effectiveness

• Funding
• Foreign aid
• Aid effectiveness

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Aid Impact and Effectiveness

• Aid effectiveness
• Donors
• Evidence