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Africa:
Aid Plus Trade Can End Extreme Poverty
allAfrica, 5 August 2009
Against the backdrop of an international economic downturn and changes in government leadership in the United States and United Kingdom, donors, development officials and… Read more »
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Africa:
Invest in Small Farmers, Says IFAD Chief
allAfrica, 4 August 2009
Kanayo F. Nwanze, president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), recently spoke with AllAfrica about the future of international assistance and the role… Read more »
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Uganda:
Britain Adopts Tough Blueprint to Monitor Aid Flow
East African, 12 October 2009
To monitor donor inflows and development aid to Uganda, the British government has adopted a new blueprint. Read more »
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Somalia:
U.S. Government to Set New Aid Terms
UNIRIN, 6 October 2009
The US government is to put special conditions on its humanitarian grants for at least 13 aid agencies operating in Somalia. Read more »
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Africa:
Foreign Aid Not Good for Region
The Herald, 18 November 2009
I COME from Africa, a resource-rich continent which is depicted as poor by conventional development statistics -- so as to justify foreign aid. Aid has driven Africans to lose… Read more »
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Africa:
Ending Aid Dependence - Asserting National Autonomy
Fahamu, 22 October 2009
Yash Tandon is the former executive director of the South Centre in Geneva. In an interview with Pambazuka News, he discusses the problems of 'development aid', his differences… Read more »
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Zimbabwe:
Donor Fatigue Threatens Care Programmes
Zimbabwe Standard, 17 October 2009
THE provision of palliative care in most communities is threatened by worsening poverty and donor fatigue, research by the Southern African Aids Information Dissemination Service… Read more »
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Africa:
Local Skills Boost Development, Says Foundation Head
allAfrica, 4 August 2009
Lloyd Pierson of the U.S. Africa Development Foundation (USADF) rejects claims that foreign aid has had little impact in Africa. He says aid is most effective when programs are… Read more »
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Africa:
We Can Eliminate Extreme Poverty By 2025
allAfrica, 4 August 2009
Jeffrey Sachs, author of The End of Poverty, is the director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York. He believes that extreme poverty can be eliminated by 2025… Read more »
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Africa:
Best Aid Monitors Are Those At Grassroots
allAfrica, 4 August 2009
Africa needs to reinvigorate its traditions, revitalize its academic institutions and move away from aid to infrastructural development and intra-African trade, says Njongonkulu… Read more »
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Africa:
Change Ways of Giving Aid, Says Economist
allAfrica, 4 August 2009
Paul Collier is the author of "The Bottom Billion," an award-winning book that shines a light on some 50 failing states in the world and the billion people who live in them. He… Read more »
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Africa:
Mobile Phones Achieve More Than Aid, Says Industry Chief
allAfrica, 4 August 2009
Michael Joseph, CEO of Safaricom in Kenya, believes the mobile phone has had a greater impact than aid on development in the country. Read more »
