Tag archive for ‘aid’
What Can the European Union do for Development?
The European Commission’s Development Directorate has a fresh team in charge: a new Commissioner and a new Director General. What should be their priorities? The Commission writes big cheques: its aid budget makes it one of the largest donors. Yet aid is not the Commission’s comparative advantage. It accounts for only around a fifth of [...]
Hope in Haiti
The post-earthquake situation in Haiti has been recognised as being analogous to post-conflict, and donors have been appropriately generous. Between them, the European Union, the US, and other donors have pledged a sum approaching 7 billion euros to fund reconstruction, the single largest contribution coming from the EU. The international response is important, even beyond [...]
Assessment System Required to Ensure Aid Makes a Real Difference
How should aid be provided? Aid appears to be at its best when it is designated to finance beneficial projects. If aid finances a school or a health clinic then surely it is useful. Unfortunately, this is often an illusion for the simple reason that such projects may well have been undertaken by the government [...]
