- A veil of secrecy on Australian foreign aid? Fairfax's Adam Gartrell on the absence of the usual 'blue book' with details on Australian aid spending.
- Ashlee Betteridge analyses the impact of budget cuts to the Australian Volunteers for International Development program.
- Not everyone loves the Gates Foundation. Vox reviews the academics critical of its successes.
- UK Foreign aid: new British poll highlights British opinion and attitudes to aid.
- Drones for Development? Scott Macmillan on the possibility of 'cargo drones' lifting countries out of poverty.
- Kenya's president has urged other African leaders to stop receiving foreign aid, in a tweet ahead of the African Union Summit this week.
- News that the new centre-right government in Finland will slash development aid by 43% , and fears other EU countries may follow.
- An amusing read from The Guardian's Secret Aid Worker: flaky aid boys and other development love-life disasters.
Aid & development links: Gates Foundation critics, drones, flaky aid boys and more
Published 15 Jun 2015
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