- Where's the Australian aid program heading? Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop offered the clearest articulation to date of her vision at the Australasian Aid and International Development Policy workshop in Canberra last week.
- Does foreign aid really work? Roger Riddell's updated paper provides a breakdown of the question and an excellent survey of the evidence; shorter blog post here.
- Are donors exploiting rules to inflate their aid numbers? This issue has surfaced over the last few years in Australia in light of aid budgets being used to fund costs associated with asylum seekers. But it extends further than that. The Guardian Development blog takes us through the politics and the mathematics of aid figures.
- Nigeria is badly run, but its biggest city, Lagos, has turned a corner partly because the local government is raising more taxes. The case for devolving power to cities.
- Former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard was appointed to lead the Global Partnership for Education, which is working to help get some 57 million children into schools.
- Nepal introduces new policy for accepting aid: it will be centralised through a government channel, a move which is likely to hurt NGOs.
- UNICEF's public health campaign to reduce open defecation in India has a catchy YouTube clip:
Aid & development links: Aid statistics, education, Nepal, UNICEF, Nigeria and more
Published 17 Feb 2014
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