Development

As Western countries shuffle their aid budgets, their officials are arguing about where the axe should fall and how to maintain diplomatic leverage. Diplomats have worked out that...

The European Commission proposes to allow development aid to fund the military in developing countries, though only 'in exceptional circumstances'. This is part of a trend to reduce...

Members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development are quietly reconsidering the definition of aid to developing countries, what it calls Official Development Assistance. Some are seeking...

Populated by sleep-deprived politicians and their entourages, non-governmental organisation activists and assorted policy wonks, the United Nations Financing for Development meeting in Addis Ababa last week resembled a...

The much-maligned World Summit on Sustainable Development may have pulled off one success, not so much in endorsing the goal of halving the number of those who lack...