News, reflections and innovation in Development Aid

This paper reflects on some of the Research and Policy in Development (RAPID) Programme's capacity development work in recent years and draw implications for future practice for both consultants and funders.

Ghana is one of Africa's great successes – a stable and thriving country that is testament to the impact of aid.

Jonathan Glennie: Poverty and profit-making are uneasy bedfellows, but an ethical response to development issues is not beyond big business...

Some economists, with their recent fad for “evaluation”, have managed to get themselves deeply confused about what the “conditional” in “conditional cash transfer” (CCT) is really about.

A new book charts a measured course across the hype-ridden landscape of microfinance, but overlooks a key underlying issue...

Putting all UN operations in a country under a single management structure is not as simple as it might sound.

 
George Bernard Shaw quipped, "If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion."  However, economists should not be singled out on this account -- there is an equal s...

Claire Provost: Two years on from Haiti's devastating earthquake, find out which donors have not delivered on their pledges and who has received the aid money paid out...

Maybe, but perhaps it's more important to look beyond definitions and quantity of aid to dissect donor claims and analyse how public money is being spent...