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Posts Tagged: Foreign AidWho Will Win Out? The Millennium Challenge Corporation’s Upcoming 2012 Selection – Casey DunningDecember 6, 2011Posted by Lawrence MacDonald in Aid Effectiveness, Latin America, Rethinking US Foreign Assistance Tags: Foreign Aid
On December 15th the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), an innovative U.S. aid agency, is set to announce which countries will receive its unique development assistance. Casey Dunning, policy analyst at CGD and my guest on this week’s Wonkcast, provides insight and recommendations on how these countries will (and should) be selected. I catch Casey shortly after her return from Honduras, where she saw firsthand the positive impacts of an MCC compact on rural development and highway construction. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Comment »Implications of Ghana’s New Middle-Income Status – Todd MossNovember 21, 2011Posted by Lawrence MacDonald in Africa, Global Development, Oil Tags: Foreign Aid, Ghana, IDA, World Bank
Ghana’s recent recalculation of its GDP led to an overnight $500 per capita jump, putting in motion unexpectedly rapid graduation from the International Development Association (IDA) and ultimately a new relationship with the World Bank. In this week’s Wonkcast, I speak with Todd Moss, vice president for programs and senior fellow at CGD, about his recent trip to the newly categorized lower-middle income country, the implications of IDA graduation, and a sudden influx of oil wealth. Why Ghana? Todd explains that the country was the first country in Sub-Saharan Africa to gain independence from colonial rulers after World War II and a pioneer in making the transition to a stable democracy. Many in Africa and elsewhere therefore look to Ghana as a harbinger of things to come for the region. Graduation from IDA may be similar in this way, since many African countries are enjoying moderate-to-high sustained growth and will soon breach the IDA income ceiling of $1,175 GDP per capita. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Comment »Nancy Birdsall on Cash on Delivery AidFebruary 17, 2010Posted by Lawrence MacDonald in Aid Effectiveness, Education, Global Development Tags: Aid Effectiveness, Cash on Delivery Aid, Education, Foreign Aid, Nancy Birdsall
Can aid donors find a better way to deliver aid? My guest this week is Nancy Birdsall, president of the Center for Global Development. Along with William Savedoff and Ayah Mahgoub, Nancy is working on a potential new way of disbursing foreign assistance called Cash on Delivery Aid. COD Aid seeks to devise simple, results-based contracts that reward developing countries for making progress towards previously agreed goals—such as increased primary school completion rates, vaccination coverage, or access to clean water. In the podcast, Nancy explains that the traditional mode of giving aid, in which donors often take an active role in prescribing which actions recipient governments should take, can undermine incentives for governments to identify problems and design and implement locally appropriate solutions. “We have to create a system in which outside resources actually help the developing country governments find out what works in their particular setting,” says Nancy. Podcast: Play in new window | Download 3 Comments »Development and Obama’s Budget; Interview with CGD’s Sarah Jane StaatsFebruary 10, 2010Posted by Lawrence MacDonald in Rethinking US Foreign Assistance Tags: Foreign Aid, HIV/AIDS, Sarah Jane Staats, USAID
$3.8 trillion is a number a little too large to comprehend; Sarah Jane and I break down some of the numbers in the budget and have some fun comparing development and diplomacy programs with some of the government’s big ticket spending items. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Comment »Fragile States: Development in the World’s Basket CasesJanuary 19, 2010Posted by Lawrence MacDonald in Fragile States, Global Development Tags: Foreign Aid, Fragile States, Vijaya Ramachandran
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I’m joined for this week’s CGD Wonkcast by Sarah Jane Staats, director of policy outreach here at the Center for Global Development. Last week, President Obama released his proposed budget for the next fiscal year. Sarah Jane and others here at the Center have been poring over the budget request, examining what signals the budget sends on the administration’s approach to development.
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