Who spends what on foreign aid and where?
The ‘traditional’ foreign aid donors (aka the OECD DAC) released it’s latest report (here) and stats on aid (here) this week. This is of course amid different debates each side of the Atlantic (the...
View ArticlePolitics, hunger and the muppets
Sesame Street is addressing head on the issues of 50m Americans living with hunger (see Alex post here on the staggering data in the Economist recently) by introducing a new character. Lily, who...
View ArticleWhat is catalytic foreign aid?
Is ‘aid exit’ or ‘catalytic aid’ a new development strategy for poor countries? You might think so judging by comments buzzing around about ‘catalytic aid’ or ‘aid to end aid’ from leaders of some of...
View ArticleInequality: What’s the policy narrative?
Inequality has got much more on the radar of policy wonks over the last year (see for example the usual inequality interest at UNICEF and UNDP but also the World Economic Forum and the International...
View ArticleCan Obama bend it like Bono?
What do Obama and Bono have in common? Both have proposed that the world should seek to end extreme poverty over the next twenty years or so. Obama said so in his annual state of the union address...
View ArticleOn inequality, let’s do the Palma (because the Gini is so last century)
There’s one measure of inequality that gets all the attention – the Gini index. The Gini was developed in the early 1900s – in fact about 100 years ago – by Italian Statistician, Corrado Gini (see...
View ArticleThe future of global poverty: What if there were multiple horizons for aid...
A Brookings paper out this week (here) does something a set of papers have sought to do recently – that is make projections about the future of global poverty. These kind of papers have significant...
View ArticleWhat’s the $10 trillion question?
Global consumption grew by $10 trillion from 1990 to 2010. So the $10 trillion question is who benefited and how much? In a new paper we explore who have been the winners and losers since 1990. And...
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