DISPATCHES Vol 67 No 3 | ECONOMYAFRICAAID Davos leaders vow to build new aid agenda 26th January 2026 Business leaders and state officials cooperate on the Magic Mountain to map out new strategy for assistance Delegates at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the site of Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain, have been tasked with drawing up a new blueprint for development policy as... READ FOR FREE
DISPATCHES Vol 66 No 9 | AFRICAOECDAID Western aid spending heads towards the cliff-edge as US cuts bite 22nd April 2025 The OECD is warning that assistance to poorest nations must be protected to avoid ‘dramatic’ impacts The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) says that aid to struggling sub-Saharan African countries should be ringfenced amid the deep spending cuts threatened by the... READ FOR FREE
Vol 66 No 5 | AFRICAAID Western aid cuts reshape the geopolitical landscape 7th March 2025 As western countries slash aid budgets, China, Turkey and the Gulf States step up the competition for soft power and commercial advantage The 90-day freeze on almost all United States aid imposed on 20 January by President Donald Trump, together with swingeing cuts in assistance by other rich western economies,... READ FOR FREE
Vol 64 No 20 | SWEDENAID Keeping aid in the family 5th October 2023 Sweden plans to compensate private companies which lost money on contracts with Ukraine because of the war out of its overseas aid budget, Norway's Development Today reports. The...
Vol 64 No 10 | ECONOMYAFRICAAID Rich countries boost aid – to themselves 11th May 2023 Helping Ukrainian refugees has driven a surge in aid spending – mostly at the expense of hard-hit African economies African states have felt the pain of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in the form of shortages and higher prices for wheat, grain and agricultural inputs, and above all...
DISPATCHES Vol 62 No 24 | OECDAID Rich countries put a price on their delayed vaccine programmes 25th November 2021 After failing to back the IMF's $50 billion vaccine plan, G20 countries are trying to make their aid programmes look more generous Successive attempts to get the rich countries of the G7 and G20 to agree on a plan to vaccinate most of the world against Covid-19 have ended in... READ FOR FREE
Vol 61 No 16 | OECDAID From debt to aid 6th August 2020 Members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said in April that they would 'strive to protect aid budgets' in the wake of Covid-19. Many civil society...
Vol 61 No 10 | HEALTHAIDCOVID-19 Whose cure is it anyway? 14th May 2020 Industrialised countries are defending funding research to find a vaccine for Covid-19 out of Official Development Assistance funds against a possible challenge from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation...
Vol 60 No 7 | AID Donors' aid parade 5th April 2019 Official Development Assistance, the UN says, should be around 0.7% of gross national income, but many nations want to include within it items not normally considered 'aid' at...
Vol 59 No 8 | AID Cooking the books 20th April 2018 Development aid to the world's poorest countries fell by 0.6% in 2017. That, at least, was the headline figure published on 9 April by the Development Assistance Committee...