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ESSAYS
April 28, 2015
The development landscape between now and 2030 will be look completely different from the last fifteen years. The Sustainable Development Goals which look likely to be agreed in September, including a commitment to eradicate absolute poverty by 2030, will be addressed against a very different backdr...
Blog Post
February 02, 2015
It drives me crazy that so many people equate development policy with foreign aid.
That’s why I welcome this week’s landmark report from the British parliament’s Select Committee on International Development. As the UK nears the end of a five-year parliament, this well-respected...
Press Release
February 02, 2015
The UK House of Commons International Development Committee issued a report today, which concluded that foreign aid to poor countries is no longer a sufficient policy to address shared global challenges. The report says the focus should move away from aid and towards an approach that focus...
Blog Post
September 29, 2014
Does a stand-alone Department for International Development have a long-term future? What is the role of DFID in facilitating other British government departments and other UK organizations to assist developing countries? What is its role in influencing the policies of other Whitehall departments?
Blog Post
March 07, 2014
CGD’s Europe Beyond Aid initiative explores how the individual and collective policies affect the developing world and how they could be improved. Using the Commitment to Development Index (CDI), it combines the scores of the 21 European countries that feature in the Index and calculates a con...
Blog Post
December 06, 2012
This is a joint post with Liza Reynolds.
This blog post announces the launch of the Europe Beyond Aid initiative and presents a summary of the research and preliminary analysis in its first working paper.
Europeans more than pull their weight in aid to developing countries. Last year ...