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Blog Post
September 28, 2020
When a society goes from broadly shared growth to a state of malaise or decline, the ensuing pain is not just economic but psychological. Now that tens of millions of people in developing countries are suffering precisely such a reversal of fortune, the political fallout is sure to be tumultuous.
Multimedia
August 21, 2020
While COVID-19 has sparked a global crisis, the developing countries hit hardest are in Latin America. If conditions worsen, Latin America could face a severe financial crisis. To stop this from happening, policymakers, donors, researchers, and multilateral organizations must cooperate to find and e...
Blog Post
June 08, 2020
There are two ways to look at progress in the developing world context. I think the right way to look at it is that there has been tremendous success. The downside is that, as we see with the threat of COVID as well as the risk of more natural disasters because of climate change, that they and the e...
BRIEFS
July 21, 2014
The Quality of Official Development Assistance (QuODA) measures donors’ performance on 31 indicators of aid quality to which donors have made commitments. The indicators are grouped into four dimensions associated with effective aid: maximizing efficiency, fostering institutions, reducing the ...
Blog Post
August 29, 2012
This is a joint post with Edward Collins.
Can we assess ag aid quality? The short answer: sort of.
For at least a decade, aid effectiveness has been in the spotlight because of concerns that, in some cases, aid may do more harm than good and, more recently, because of growing budget ...