Who picks up the tab for development?
'We cannot expect the people in the UK to pay taxes to improve education and health in Pakistan if the Pakistan elite is not paying income tax.'
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Facilitating development: an arm’s length approach to aid
This Discussion Note sets out a case for greater use of ‘arm’s length’ forms of aid building on some of the implications of recent research. -
Using aid to address governance constraints in service delivery
This study examines how aid can facilitate government efforts to address governance constraints in public service delivery, and in particular what types of aid-funded activities and enabling factors seem to allow for this in practice. -
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. -
The effectiveness of climate finance: a review of the Adaptation Fund
One in a series of ODI working papers assessing the effectivness of multilateral climate finance, this paper reviews the Adaptation Fund. -
The effectiveness of international climate finance
Accompanying a series of reviews of multilateral funds, this paper considers the context of delivering climate finance and presents a guiding framework to assess the effectiveness of international clinate funds. -
Show me the money: development finance in the post-2015 era
'We need to have a more nuanced understanding of the role of finance – and of the comparative advantage of its different sources – in meeting agreed development goals.' -
Shaking up the aid game
For decades, developing nations have been forced to jump through hoops in order to access cash from aid agencies. Now they are starting to push back, bolstered by support from “non-traditional” sources of development assistance, including large emerging economies such as China and India, philanthropists such as the Gates Foundation and “social impact investors” such as the Shell Foundation.
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New build in Ehtiopia
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Credit: Overseas Development Institute
Source: FlickrThe age of choice: developing countries in the new aid landscape
Amid the cut and thrust of high-level discussions on global goals and the architecture of development finance at the international level, a fundamental shift is taking place in developing countries. This event will present the findings of new research into how the changing aid landscape looks from the perspective of developing countries.
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The age of choice: how are developing countries managing the new aid landscape?
This report looks at how the new aid landscape has expanded the options available to developing countries for financing their development.