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A farewell to DFID and welcome to a new Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
With a weakly argued statement to parliament, Boris Johnson has enacted one of his dreams, removing the Department for International Development (DFID) and merging it into the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to create a super Whitehall Department briefly termed … Continue reading
Posted in Anne-Marie Trevelyan, DFID, International Development, Official Development Assistance, Overseas Development Institute, Posts, World Bank
Tagged 0.7%/GNI, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, Boris Johnson, DFID, DFID merger, end of DFID, FCO, foreign aid, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, ICAI, IDC, merger, Multilateral Organisations, ODA, OECD, Official Development Assistance, World Bank
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DFID only spent 72% of UK official aid last year. Does that matter?
The UK Government released its data on 2017 official development assistance (ODA) spending today. As required by law, the total went up to match 0.7% of the UK’s GNI, reaching £14.1 billion, an increase of 5.1% over 2016. The UK…
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Tagged core aid, Department for International Development, DFID, non-core aid, ODA
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Spotlight on the UNDG
There are several dozen agencies across the United Nations (UN) system. Most of them have a specialised agencies like the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) or the World Food Programme (WFP). There are some well-known UN Funds and programmes such … Continue reading
Posted in Human Development, International Development, Millennium Development Goals, Posts, UNDG, UNDP, United Nations Development Group, United Nations Development Programme
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Characteristics of the new foreign aid architecture and ways forward
Introduction Countries have developed at various paces, some of them as a result of foreign aid or more officially known as Official Development Assistance ODA. In recent years, there have been many changes to the ODA architecture, including 1) a … Continue reading
Posted in DFID, Humanitarian Aid, IDA, International Development, International Development Association, International Political Economy, Millennium Development Goals, Posts, SDGs, sustainable development goals
Tagged China, Department for International Development, donors, foreign aid, International Development, International Organisations, IOs, Multilateral Aid Review, Multilateral Organisations, multlateral aid, new donors, non-core aid, non-traditional donors, ODA, OECD, OECD-DAC, Official Development Assistance, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development-Development Assistance Committee, Sustainable Development, sustainable development goals, trusts funds
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Hello new FCO-DFID “development” department
Well besides the so-called Conservative-DUP “broken” deal, Theresa May further “joined up” ministers in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and Department for International Development (DFID) with two ministers of state “joint up” or working in both departments. They are … Continue reading
Posted in Alistair Burt, Boris Johnson, DFID, Official Development Assistance, Posts, Priti Patel, Rory Stewart, Theresa May
Tagged Alistair Burt, Democratic Unionist Party, Department for International Development, DFID, DUP, FCO, foreign aid, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, International Development, junior minister, Minister of State, Nigeria, ODA, Official Development Assistance, Overseas Development Administration, Priti Patel, Rory Stewart, Theresa May, Tory, UK Conservative Party
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Criticism of UK aid: it’s time for aid advocates to make a choice — Phil Vernon’s blog
Recent articles in British newspapers The Times and the Mail question whether the British Government is able to spend over £12 bn per year on overseas development aid. This in a context of large government cuts in other expenditure, while … Continue reading
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The flaws in the Anti-Corruption Agenda and how to change it
The flaws in the Anti-Corruption Agenda and how to change it In May 2016, the UK hosted the Anti-Corruption Summit in London, bring leaders from developed and developing nations as well as practitioners and interest groups. World leaders and academic … Continue reading
Posted in Economic Thought, Ha-Joon Chang, International Development, Posts
Tagged 2016 anti-corruption summit, anti-corruption, anti-corruption summit, Corruption, David Cameron, economics, institutional economics, institutional political economy, institutions, neoclassical, neoliberal, neoliberalism, new institutional economics, property rights, rent-seeking, Washington Consensus
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It’s right to question aid, but better to focus on effectiveness, rather than the 0.7%
A version of this post is on Huffington Post. In the UK, a parliamentary debate can be initiated by popular petition. On 13th June, Parliament will debate the proposition that the government’s approach to foreign aid is flawed. This is…
Links for Thought 12
1) The Real Hamilton: What’s Not to Love? A Bloomberg article that talks about Alexander Hamilton, one of the very early US Treasury Secretaries, and how his ideas to grow the US economy then wouldn’t be accepted by the mainstream … Continue reading
Posted in Economic Thought, Ha-Joon Chang, International Development, Least Developed Countries, Overseas Development Institute, Posts, Poverty Reduction, SDGs, sustainable development goals
Tagged AIIB, anti-corruption, anti-corruption summit, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, BRICS, CAR, Central African Republic, Conflict, Corruption, Development Bank, Development Finance, EBRD, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Ha-Joon Chang, IDS, Institute for Development Studies, institutions, International Development, Joseph Stiglitz, Mushtaq Khan, Ngaire Woods, ODA, ODI, Official Development Assistance, offshore finance, Overseas Development Institute, SDGs, sustainable development goals
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The NSS 2015 & the SDSR 2015: The “Development” parts Part 3
Other developed-related points include the UK partnering with China for global economic movements and the development of Africa (paragraphs 5.74 and 5.75), an EU-led trade agreement to improve India’s economy. This again may be welcomed by many, but also reeks … Continue reading
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