Brian Atwood, the chair of the Development Assistance Committee at the OECD (and administrator of USAID from 1992 to 1998), was one of the key figures at last week’s Busan High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness. He had to help find a balance between broadening the alliance to include new and emerging...

This is a joint post with Stephanie Majerowicz “The defining division these days is increasingly: open or closed? Are we open to the changing world? Or do we see its menace, but not its possibilities?” —Tony Blair, A Global Alliance for Global Values, September 2006 It is ...

This post was originally featured on Owen Barder’s Owen Abroad: Thoughts on Development and Beyond blog. Will the largest aid donors hide behind China to excuse their inability to make substantial improvements in foreign aid? How can Busan balance the desire to be more universal with the ...