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Lies, Damned Lies and Aid Statistics
Ranil Dissanayake
April 20, 2022
Recently, the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) published the annual statistics summarizing how much foreign aid its 30 member states, including Austria, provided in 2021, loudly trumpeting the all time high levels of ODA achieved. It’s a good time to reflect on the uncomfortable tension...
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Getting the Best We Can Buy: Three Solutions to Improve the Use of Value for Money Evidence in Global Development
Tom Drake et al.
September 06, 2021
The need for effective evidence-informed priority-setting in global development is more urgent than ever, with widespread global challenges and reduced funding due to both COVID-19 related public spending and economic slowdowns. This blog explores three key barriers to using value for money evi...
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This Is the Perfect Moment to Redesign UK Aid Spend on Research
Euan Ritchie
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Charles Kenny
July 23, 2020
A new ICAI report issued this week suggests that large parts of UK aid spending on research and development remain hampered by a design that favors British researcher interests over urgent research topics and capacity prioritized by the world’s poorest countries. The next few months are a perfect op...
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How the UK Treasury Can Allocate £15 Billion of Aid to “Greatest Effect”
Ian Mitchell
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Arthur Baker
July 30, 2019
Last week, the new UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson made sweeping changes to government ministers. Below we set out the limitations of the last spending review—and five ways to do better.
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Focusing UK Research Aid Where It Matters
Lee Robinson et al.
July 25, 2019
The UK’s development agency, DFID, has stated that it views research as the best way to spend aid and that it intends to place high quality research central to its aid strategy. In a new paper, we find significant problems with the way that UK aid is being used to back rese...
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UK Research Aid: Tied, Opaque and Off-Topic?
Lee Robinson et al.
July 25, 2019
The UK has considerably increased the amount of aid it spends on research in recent years. We suggest reporting reforms that will increase transparency and allow greater scrutiny of the way UK research aid is spent. We also call for the UK to live up to its reporting to the OECD that all British aid...
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Results vs. Claims: Strengthening the UK’s Aid Watchdog
Ian Mitchell
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Arthur Baker
July 17, 2019
ICAI has just entered its third four-year phase. ICAI is a major asset in ensuring aid is well-spent. Having reviewed ICAI’s prior work, we think ICAI could should focus more on “results claims”—that is, whether the estimates of expected benefits that underpin decision-making...
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The UK Needs a New Formula for ODA-Funded Research
Euan Ritchie
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Charles Kenny
July 09, 2019
The UK government has recently ramped up the amount of aid that is directed towards research and development. While this can be positive in ensuring a sound research base for UK aid funds, this should not be seen as an opportunity to plug UK university funding deficits, or to "tie aid" to ...
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Leadership Ambitions: Four Opportunities for Rory Stewart, the UK’s New Secretary of State for Development
Ian Mitchell
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Arthur Baker
May 08, 2019
Rory Stewart, the UK’s new Secretary of State for Development has big ambitions for the country. In light of Stewart’s self-declared candidacy for Prime Minister, we look at four areas where he can demonstrate his credentials and value to UK taxpayers, and bolster international effo...
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The Quality of UK Aid Spending, 2011–2018: An Analysis of Evaluations by the Independent Commission on Aid Impact
Ian Mitchell
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Arthur Baker
April 17, 2019
This paper analyses the grades awarded in the 65 primary reviews undertaken by the UK Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) over its first eight years of operation, from 2011 to 2018. It finds that ICAI has directly evaluated £28bn of UK aid over the period. Around four-fifths of spend ...

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