Foreign Aid Reform: In a recent Huffington Post article, Carol Peasley writes about the “what next” of foreign aid reform, beyond giving development a stronger voice in the larger policy discussions. She asks: how can we make aid more effective through greater local ownership- what would that look like, in terms of process and funding? She also says that much of the discussion about USAID reform... [Read more]
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Policy News Roundup
CHINA & THE WORLD EXPO: The World Expo in Shanghai is “the Olympic Games of economics, culture and technology” China’s Expo pavilion opens to the world China welcomed international visitors as it marked the completion of the China pavilion for the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai. Middle class protestors march over World Expo threat to Shanghai homes Almost 1,000 people in Shanghai... [Read more]
Policy News Roundup – Clinton vs Congress, Spinning the Haiti Crisis, and more
FOREIGN AID REFORM Clinton combats Congress on foreign aid reform Brookings blog gives Obama a B- for his work on global development in 2009, and wonders if Shah will preside over an “agency without agency” in 2010. Rajiv Shah was sworn in as USAID administrator on January 12th Steve Radelet of the Center for Global Development and “father of the Millennium Challenge Corporation” is under... [Read more]
Copenhagen Outcome: Disappointing, but not Devastating?
By now you have heard the news: an agreement of sorts was reached in Copenhagen, and no one is impressed. The deal falls far short of even modest expectations, and has no teeth. The silver lining is that it is possibly a first step on the way to more controls on carbon emissions. We will have to keep pushing our leaders if we want more. It will be too easy to forget about global climate change... [Read more]
Coping with Climate Change in Copenhagen
The Climate Summit in Copenhagen is on our minds this week. The big question: by how much will we agree to reduce emissions? And how much funding will we commit to give to developing countries to help them adjust to climate change and avoid climate-busting energy use as their economies grow? So far, the United States has proposed cutting emissions by 3 to 4 percent of 1990 levels by 2020, whereas... [Read more]
