Despite a pledge made 10 years ago to end ‘tied aid’, recipients of aid are still being forced to buy goods and services from donor country firms, a report reveals
- guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 7 September 2011 13.13 BST
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We don’t call it this, but there is a “PDT Doctrine”, a general world view among PDT staff that informs what we do and how we do it. Regular readers of this blog or those with whom we work can sketch the rough outlines without much trouble. We believe job creation comes from private…
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Mainly just for my reference.
Invaluable advice for any undergraduates.
This podcast is from last year, but the information presented and trends discussed are, unfortunately, still quite relevant. Felicity Lawrence speaks with Duncan Green, Jayati Ghosh, Olivier de Schutter, and Raj Patel about the causes of and possible solutions to the global food crisis.
While acknowledging that domestic policies and inequalities play significant roles in food crises around the world, Lawrence and her guest speakers focus on the international trade and development issues that perpetuate global hunger. In this thirty-minute podcast, they discuss trade rules that favor rich countries over poor, long-term neglect of agriculture in development work, food speculation, the growing Western preoccupation with biofuels, changing global dietary habits, and the impact of climate change on agriculture in the tropics.
*I took the title for this post from a letter to Paul Collier written by William Aal, Lucy Jarosz, and Carol Thompson. Read it here.
Why is education important?
- Education increases quality of life. Education is a fundamental human right and essential for the exercise of all other human rights.
- A more educated society is more productive, consequently creating more prosperity.
- A larger educated population contains more…
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It seems donors are also learning lessons from my mother, because they’ve decided to try out a new approach to giving out money. Giving it out after the chores have been done, rather than before (#ministryofthebleedingobvious?).
Instead of paying up in advance to, for example build new primary schools or train teachers, DFID are trying out paying on delivery of results. The number of additional children who finish and pass primary school will be counted, and only then will the government get the money (paid per child passed).
The point being to create stronger incentives for governments to improve their education systems and attempts (as Dambisa Moyo mentioned in the video I posted earlier) to make governments more accountable to their citizens rather than the international donor community.
I guess like Wiley, donors have decided that they also want to see numbers in action. I certainly do!
For more info check out this podcast with Nancy Birdsall http://tinyurl.com/6278xbq
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Well, it’s live. Watching the data come in is really interesting in a I’m-a-massive-geek kind of way.
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UK aid: a public opinion http://bit.ly/mG3sIX
edited 09/05/11, wrong URL!
I’m finally getting this project started, and the questionnaires will be going out shortly.
Google Forms seems to be the way forward, easy enough to put together and it gathers all the data in a spreadsheet so it’s easy to show pie charts, graphs and such.
