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Aid Effectiveness

Can aid become more relevant to ‘getting things done’?

Submitted by David Booth on Mon, 2011-10-24 10:18

He said it in Washington; now he has said it again in London. Who? Former UK premier Tony Blair, speaking at ODI on governance and leadership for development in Africa.


What has he been saying? That the better governance low-income Africa needs is about getting better leadership (here understood as ‘effective capacity to get things done’) – not just a matter of more transparency and greater accountability.

Korea looks to impact evaluations to improve aid effectiveness

Submitted by Ariel Fiszbein on Wed, 2010-12-01 15:21

I am writing from Seoul, where I participated in the Economic Development and Impact Evaluation conference organized by the Korea Development Institute. Korean officials at the conference had a consistent and forceful message: aid works.