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The G8 and development – what is the scorecard?
Today is school-report day for the G8. As leaders prepare for their summit, which begins on 17 June, most of them will enjoy reading the Lough Erne Accountability Report. They get good marks on most subjects – and some friendly prompts to do better on others. -
Delivery is the G8 yardstick
It’s easy to be cynical about G8 summits. But, as David Cameron prepares to host the annual meeting of leaders from the world’s richest countries in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, the British government has a unique opportunity to provide leadership on issues at the heart of global poverty and inequality – and to restore the credibility of the G8 in global economic governance.
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Paying for progress: how will emerging post-2015 goals be financed in the new aid landscape?
This paper explores options for financing some of the potential post-2015 goals within the changing development cooperation landscape. It focusses on five sectors: education, health, water and sanitation, sustainable energy and food and agriculture. It asks whether – and how much – additional finance is needed to meet the likely goals; and looks at what this implies for the design of the post-2015 framework. -
Accountability and effectiveness of the G20’s role in promoting development
This paper argues that the G20 does have a role in framing an appropriate environment for growth (and development) in small, poor and vulnerable countries. -
Rethinking Rio +20: why economists should take the Earth Summit seriously
Back at the first RioEarth Summitin 1992, the civil society organisations in attendance counted an unusual group among their number. Amid the assorted staffers and activists from environmental and development NGOs, there was a handful of campaigners who had a very different relationship with the Earth: representatives of an astronauts' organisation. Their reason for being there? Having seen the planet from space, they'd learned to view it from a different angle.
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Cusco, Peru
License: Creative Commons
Credit: Ilkerender
Source: FlickrERD 2013: European Report on Development
The objective of this initiative is to enhance a European perspective on development issues in the international arena, on the basis of knowledge excellence, innovation and building of common ground between the European research community and policy-makers. The European Report on Development 2013 aims to provide an independent European contribution to the emerging debate on a possible post-2015 consensus on international development. -
Making life easier for good leaders
Tony Blair put in a great performance at the ODI/AGI event on Wednesday in the run-up to the Busan forum on aid effectiveness. The big message I took away was clearly informed by his own experience of government: ‘without a strong centre, nothing gets done’. AGI is all about building up that ‘strong centre’, and his ideas about how aid can be part of that process sparked off a lot of good questions from the floor and much discussion afterwards. -
Sowing beyond the state: NGOs and seed supply in developing countries
E. Cromwell, Steve Wiggins and Sondra WentzelThis book presents the results of a study of the seed activities of 18 NGOs and other development agencies in Asia, Africa and Latin America. -
Regional development banks
John WhiteThis study analyses regional development banks and the provisions of development finance for the Third Wolrd.