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Report: China's aid beneficial to Africa

Report: China's aid beneficial to Africa

chinadaily.com.cn –

How large and how effective is Chinese aid to Africa? AidData, a partnership of the College of William and Mary, Brigham Young University and Development Gateway, has compiled a database on China's aid to Africa over the past decade. According to the new database, China's official aid to Africa reached $75 billion between 2000 and 2011, with the establishment of 1,673 Chinese-backed or -financed projects in 50 African countries. Critics of China's aid to Africa have claimed that it goes only to more...

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D C on May 15, 2013

The IFC Women’s Finance Hub is powered by Zunia

The IFC Women’s Finance Hub is powered by Zunia

developmentgateway.org –

Development Gateway is proud to announce that the Women’s Finance Hub is powered by our Zunia Knowledge Sharing Platform. The Hub is an online platform to help advance access to finance for women-owned businesses by disseminating research and information on critical issues relevant to them. It will also act as a launch pad for discussions and collaborative groups who are involved in women entrepreneurship, and address gaps in data, promote collaboration in knowledge sharing, and highlight more...

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D C on May 15, 2013

Government and development partners' priority do not align: Development Cooperation Report

Government and development partners' priority do not align: Development Cooperation Report

thehimalayantimes.com –

Actual foreign aid disbursement dropped marginally to $1.04 billion in the last fiscal year, from $1.07 billion a fiscal year back, according to a report. However, the total commitment including technical assistance from development partners had crossed $1.21 billion in fiscal year 2011-12. Likewise, the priorities of the government and development partners also do not match, the recently published Development Cooperation Report 2011-12 revealed. Sectorwise, education is the largest receiver more...

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D C on May 15, 2013

Glass Houses… INGOs and Walking the Talk on IATI

Glass Houses… INGOs and Walking the Talk on IATI

lindaraftree.com –

Over 40 governments, along with UN organizations and the World Bank, have committed to a common standard and time schedule for publishing aid information under the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). Secretary of State Clinton signed on behalf of the US Government (USG) on November 2011. While US engagement has been very welcomed, US Government performance in terms of actually executing IATI has left much to be desired. But with all the attention focused on how USG is performing, more...

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D C on May 15, 2013

What’s Your Source? Comparing Official and Media-Based Chinese Aid Data

What’s Your Source? Comparing Official and Media-Based Chinese Aid Data

blog.aiddata.org –

If you needed reliable and comprehensive data on development finance flowing into your country, where would you go? We often assume that the most detailed and accurate records are maintained by the organizations directly involved. The OECD-DAC donors regularly report their data through the Creditor Reporting System (CRS), and recipient governments maintain their own databases of external financing, some of which are open to the public. So you would go to one of those official sources, more...

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D C on May 15, 2013

Where Does $1 Billion in Official Development Assistance Go in Nepal?

Where Does $1 Billion in Official Development Assistance Go in Nepal?

developmentgateway.org –

On April 16, the Nepal Ministry of Finance (MoF) formally launched its second-annual Development Cooperation Report (DCR) for fiscal year 2012. The DCR, which aggregates and analyzes information from the Nepal Aid Management Platform (AMP), dissects and displays for the public how $US 1 billion in development assistance - representing 26% of the national budget - was used in Nepal over the past year. The report illustrates which donors gave the most (World Bank), how much funding each district more...

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D C on May 15, 2013

Aid as a Second-Best Solution: Seven Problems of Effectiveness and How to Tackle Them

Aid as a Second-Best Solution: Seven Problems of Effectiveness and How to Tackle Them

wider.unu.edu –

Most rich countries developed without aid, and this self-development has some intrinsic advantages. In today’s massively unequal world, however, such an approach would imply very low levels of human development for several generations for many poor countries. Aid can therefore usefully be thought of as a necessary but second-best option. The challenge then is how to manage this second-best option, particularly in the more aid-dependent states and the more fragile environments, in order to more...

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D C on May 14, 2013

Beyond Paris: 11 innovations in aid effectiveness

Beyond Paris: 11 innovations in aid effectiveness

devpolicy.anu.edu.au –

The current framework for improving aid effectiveness, the 'Paris' agenda of harmonisation and alignment, has been found lacking. Alternatives are needed. This paper highlights some examples of recent innovations in the management and delivery of development aid. Drawing upon Barder (2009) and Howes (2011), the paper structures 11 innovations into three categories: improving the quality of the aid donor; improving the quality of the aid recipient; and improving how donors interact and the way more...

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D C on May 14, 2013

Aid and Universal Primary Education

Aid and Universal Primary Education

halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr –

Universal Primary Education (UPE) is one of the main objectives of development aid. However, very little empirical evidence of its effectiveness actually exists. Until very recently, the quality of available data was not sufficient to obtain robust results regarding the relationship between international aid and educational achievements. In this article, the latest, more disaggregated and more reliable data is used to study the relationship between aid to education and educational achievements more...

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D C on May 14, 2013

25 Years of Aid Allocation Practice: Whither Selectivity?

25 Years of Aid Allocation Practice: Whither Selectivity?

sciencedirect.com –

The 4P framework (Poverty, Population, Policy, and Proximity) is introduced as a way of understanding a donor’s aid allocation. We use the two-part model and examine the period 1982–2006. The results indicate that recent conclusions of increasing selectivity are misplaced for the seven major donors analyzed, who together represent the majority of development aid. Indeed, the effect of each of the commonly mentioned time-trends (selectivity, the end of the Cold War, and the commencement of the more...

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D C on May 14, 2013

An overview of aid effectiveness, determinants and strategies

An overview of aid effectiveness, determinants and strategies

devpolicy.anu.edu.au –

This paper provides an overview of issues relating to aid effectiveness. It argues that it is impossible to give a definitive answer to the question of whether aid is effective, and that it is more useful to ask what can be done to make aid more effective. The paper then groups the various determinants of aid effectiveness, as well as strategies to improve effectiveness, under three headings: the performance of the recipient (developing) country government; the performance of the aid agency of more...

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D C on May 14, 2013

Labour markets, human capital and inequality

Less income inequality and more growth - Are they compatible? Associated graphs & tables This site from the OECD provides a number of graphs developed from its research results.

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John Daly on May 13, 2013

Subjective Probabilities, Ratings, Handicappers, and Open Access Online Scientific Literature

Subjective Probabilities, Ratings, Handicappers, and Open Access Online Scientific Literature

stconsultant.blogspot.com –

In a previous post I proposed an iterative process that can be used sequentially add information to the rating of research proposals, providing quantitative results. This post extends that method to show how information on the source of the proposal and the source of the review can be used to improve the results. It also provides a measure of the information provided by the review at each stage. The method is extended to rating open access online scientific publications and non-peer more...

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John Daly on May 11, 2013

Improving The Data

Improving The Data

aiddatachina.org –

While the initial database was built by AidData staff and researchers, AidData encourage you to help us improve the data by identifying errors and omissions and suggesting alternative sources of information. This public resource was created in full anticipation of this fact and in the hope that others who are knowledgeable about specific Chinese development finance activities will help improve the accuracy, scope and depth of the database over time.

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D C on May 10, 2013

The AidData database debate heats up

The AidData database debate heats up

storify.com –

The newly released AidData database on China’s development finance to Africa has created quite a storm amongst China-Africa watchers. The Guardian.co.uk put up an impressive interactive piece entitled “Soft power, hard cash: how Beijing spent billions on aid and development in Africa.” The piece claimed that research has revealed the true value of aid and it lauded the newly launched AidData database as "one of the most ambitious attempts to chip away at Chinese secrecy". AidData was more...

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D C on May 10, 2013

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