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In response to the Northern Triangle trilogy: Regional donor programmes focus on prevention to reduce crime and violence on the streets of the ‘Northern Triangle’ countries.

Western governments are increasingly reframing their rhetoric of engagement in fragile and conflict-affected areas around the development of a vibrant private sector. But how does this ‘new’ approach work in practice? Who are the ‘new’ beneficiari...

Fragile states are characterized by a variety of institutional arrangements that exist alongside each other. This institutional multiplicity is a complex phenomenon, but not necessarily ‘good’ or ‘bad’. For donors and development organizations, it...

Guestblogger Seth Kaplan's second blog post on the rise of the g7+ group of 18 fragile and conflict-affected states 

Although the MDGs are arguably the most politically important pact ever made for international development, they harbor several lessons for their successor framework.

Donors are estimated to receive a return from development aid of 50–80%. To understand the financial effects of aid on donor countries, we need a new economic model.

There is nothing really new about Britain often finding itself in a special position in international relations, and in that position it is deriving added strength from the current anti-Europe debate in the UK. The past few months have provided so...

There is nothing really new about Britain often finding itself in a special position in international relations, and in that position it is deriving added strength from the current anti-Europe debate in the UK. The past few months have provided so...

I recently chaired a forum that discussed whether a new paradigm has emerged in the field of development cooperation, and if so, what does it consist of? A great deal of time at these kinds of debates is spent exploring definitions and their usefu...

It was said that there was a fisherman who caught a lot of fish with his rod, which caused the other fishermen to envy him.

Cooperation between emerging economies such as China, India and Brazil and other developing countries is one of the main items for discussion on the Busan agenda. Investment, trade and development assistance provided by emerging economies for othe...

Ensuring effective development in backward economies is urgent

In April 2011 the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the OECD released its statement “Welcoming New Partnerships in International Development Cooperation.” The main objective of this statement is to forge a closer partnership between tradit...

The Broker has started a new series on Emerged States. We kicked off with the articles Turkey turns the tide and Brazil braves new waters. 

So, the MDG summit is over, and all those with an interest in the outcomes will be taking stock and deciding if, on balance, the event has been a success. They’ll be scanning the outcomes document, the transcripts of speeches and news reports dili...

The UN Secretary-General’s report speaks firmly on keeping international commitments and this week’s Summit will no doubt produce some strengthening of global commitment towards the MDGs. This is good and important for welfare in poor countries. B...

Some countries stage high-level side events to show their commitment to the MDGs or otherwise underline their own priorities. Today I went to one, organized by the German government and presided by German chancellor Angela Merkel herself. She mode...

We are all starters in the sector and fear that the development community has become an inward looking culture that has hardly any interaction with outsiders. How we think the sector is evolving?

This blog discusses the new turn in Germany after the latest elections in September 2009.

The business of working up successive development agendas and policy formulas has beset the aid system from its beginnings more than sixty years ago. The MDGs are the latest in a long parade of earnest exhortations. As the “After 2015” exercise cl...

On 23 June 2009, the Residence Palace in Brussels hosted the High Level Policy Forum ‘After 2015: promoting pro-poor growth after the MDGs’. The forum was a joint initiative of IDS, DSA, EADI, DFID and ActionAid.

We see two major issues that Europe could and should address as a matter of some urgency: combating European donor proliferation, and harmonizing policy analysis and policy dialogue. Both aspects relate to the Development Assistance Committee (DAC...

Europe is the most important provider of aid at a global scale with more than half of all official development assistance coming from the European Union and its member states. Roughly €14 billion a year goes to Africa. Even though other countries...

The European Report on Development is likely to bring only marginally new perspectives into the field of development, to kill whatever originality European research may have, and to be counterproductive to the attempts to shift the responsibility...

Non-governmental development organizations are expected to focus on countries with poor governance. New evidence shows that they do not. While they do tend to focus more than bilateral donors on poor countries, they make some curious geographical...