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Pambazuka - Ending aid dependence: Asserting national autonomy

  • ‘Aid can be placed in a continuum from left to right, starting with Purple Aid (based on the provision of global public goods), Yellow Aid (based on the principle of geopolitical strategic and security interests), Orange Aid (based on the commercial principle), and Red Aid (based on an ideological principle).’
  • ‘Aid can be placed in a continuum from left to right, starting with Purple Aid (based on the provision of global public goods), Yellow Aid (based on the principle of geopolitical strategic and security interests), Orange Aid (based on the commercial principle), and Red Aid (based on an ideological principle).’
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07 Jun 08

allAfrica.com: Africa: The Story of Order # 81707503 (Page 1 of 2)

The cooking oil Hawa Birhim is about to receive in Koloma started life more than 15 months earlier, when Food for Peace director of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) Jeffrey Borns sat in his office in Washington, DC and signed Order # 81707503 for a total of 925 tonnes of the oil.

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06 Jun 08

Center for Global Development : A Funny YouTube Video about Foreign Assistance?

The U.S. Foreign Assistance Act -- a cornerstone of America’s support for global development -- is so badly out of date and needs the next American president to help bring it into the 21st century. That's the message of a new YouTube video launched this week by the Center for Global Development. “The situation would be funny if it weren't so pathetic,” said CGD director of communications and policy Lawrence MacDonald. “

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24 Apr 08

The Reality of Aid network

The Paris Declaration is an unprecedented achievement for the international donor community and the partner governments, committing themselves to key principles for aid reform. Since the aid effectiveness agenda is narrowly focused on aid management and delivery, there is little knowledge of the issue among broader circles of the development community and even more so among civil society organizations, parliaments, media and the public in general. It is often not understood that the aid effectiveness agenda actually addresses the crucial issues of reforming relationships in development cooperation and aid which are as old as official development aid itself.

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13 Apr 08

Bank both player and referee in road to Accra (Bretton Woods Project)

[for the] High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in September...the World Bank is...prompting cries of foul play by civil society groups. The Bank is heavily involved in the process of monitoring commitments and...the run-up to the Ghana meeting.

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14 Feb 07

Eldis - Aid

This paper argues that the reduction of Horizontal Inequalities (HIs), or inequalities between culturally defined groups, should inform aid policy in heterogeneous countries with severe HIs. It shows how this would change aid allocation across countries,

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25 Jul 06

.: New Internationalist magazine on-line :.

New Internationalist Publications is a communications co-operative based in Oxford with editorial and sales offices in Toronto, Canada; Adelaide, Australia; Christchurch, Aotearoa /New Zealand; and Lewiston, USA. It exists to report on issues of world pov

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