What do we know about public investment efficiency in developing countries? This column introduces a new Public Investment Management Index that benchmarks the quality and efficiency of the investment process across 71 developing and emerging countries.
USAID Administrator Raj Shah delivers a speech at the Democracy, Rights and Governance Conference, and announces USAID support for AGI's Sierra Leone programme.
"Aid is important and it works and we should be really proud of what we as a country have done in aid, but aid is one half; the other half is governance. For most of these countries, their problems are every bit as much governance, as much as the lack or availability of aid."
"We, the countries of Ethiopia, Mali, Nepal, Senegal, and Sierra Leone, have learned essential lessons about country-led development in health. This document shares those lessons in hopes that our experiences will increase country ownership and aid effectiveness toward improving health outcomes in all developing countries."
The past two decades have delivered unprecedented progress and improvements in quality of life across the developing world. Poverty has fallen in most developing countries, and the number of low-income countries fell from 60 in 2003 to just 39 in 2009.
There is a new discourse coming out of the British government regarding the importance of forging modern, mutually rewarding bilateral relationships with African states. However, this is taking place in the context of further cuts to FCO capacity and an emerging National Security Council apparatus in which many important but complex African issues appear to fit with uncertainty.
"Growing a Better Future catalogues the symptoms of today’s broken food system and warns that we have entered a new age of crisis where depletion of the earth’s natural resources and increasingly severe climate change impacts will create millions more hungry people."
Prime Minister David Cameron and President Obama reaffirms their commitment to changing the lives of the 1.2 billion poor people in the world today. Recent success and new technologies provide hope and opportunities to accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
While the overall prevalence of poverty is in retreat, the global poverty landscape is changing. This transformation is captured by two distinct trends: poor people are increasingly found in middle-income countries and in fragile states. Both trends – and their intersection – present important new questions for how the international community tackles global poverty reduction.
The US Marine Rye Barcott's story of Carolina for Kibera, a pioneer of the participatory development movement
