- Terence Wood analyses new polling data to get to the bottom of who actually supports Australian aid. (Hint: it helps to be young, educated, female and from the left end of the political spectrum).
- David Cameron has announced that at least half of the UK's £9 billion aid program will be directed towards fragile states, up from 43% today.
- Adam Davidson, founder of one of my favourite podcasts, takes to The New York Times to argue that the venture-capital philosophy of investing (basically, investing small amounts in many projects/ideas and then scaling up what works) can be a useful model for foreign aid.
- Speaking of podcasts, the Innovations for Poverty Action team have released their development podcast playlist for the summer.
- To mark World Toilet Day last week, WaterAid released a report ranking countries with the worst access to toilets in 2015:
- David McKenzie and Anna Luisa Paffhausen from the World Bank take a look at what is being taught in more than 200 development economics courses from 54 developing countries.
- The Centre for Global Development's founding President, Nancy Birdsall, is stepping down after a stellar 15 year run. She will stay on until a successor is in place.
- The Guardian takes a look at the best and worst aid videos of 2015. Here's the best: