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Blog Post
October 18, 2010
Lawrence MacDonald is traveling this week, so we're re-releasing an episode from our archives. This interview was originally posted on March 22, 2010.
My guest this week is Owen Barder, a visiting fellow here at the Center for the Global Development and the director of the AidInfo project at Deve...
Blog Post
May 21, 2010
This is a joint post with William Savedoff and Ayah Mahgoub.
Shout-out to Duncan Green and Oxfam for commenting on our new book and calling, like Nicholas Kristof, for pilots of COD Aid. Best of all, Duncan noted (as have several others such as Owen Barder in this note among others) that man...
Multimedia
March 23, 2010
My guest this week is Owen Barder, a visiting fellow here at the Center for the Global Development and the director of the AidInfo project at Development Initiatives, a UK-based NGO. Owen's current work focuses on improving the transparency of the international aid system—making it easier to know wh...
Blog Post
February 17, 2010
Can aid donors find a better way to deliver aid? My guest this week is Nancy Birdsall, president of the Center for Global Development. Along with William Savedoff and Ayah Mahgoub, Nancy is working on a potential new way of disbursing foreign assistance called Cash on Delivery Aid. COD Aid seeks to ...
CGD in the News
January 14, 2010
by Owen Barder
Sir, Policymakers are rightly turning their attention to finding ways to use scientific knowledge to address the health needs of the developing world. As Andrew Jack reports ("Rich world divided over the health of the poor", June 17 - subscription required), no single solution will e...