Haiti and the Meaning of Generosity
The Haiti earthquake has become the new measure of generosity. The country’s big northern neighbours have earned much praise for their effort: The US has pledged $168 million to date, and Canada $131...
View ArticleDevelopment Aid: Missing Its Mark?
Has traditional development aid helped alleviate – or further exacerbated – poverty? This week the ISN takes a closer look at the promises and pitfalls of development aid with particular attention to...
View ArticleSoap? No, Thanks.
Education in developing countries is often a subject of controversy. But it can also be an example of absurdity. Let’s take the example of technological development in Namibia. Namibia, with 2 million...
View ArticleMissing Pieces: China’s Challenges, Africa’s Mixed Picture, and More
By Isobel Coleman for Council on Foreign Relations. In this week’s installment of Missing Pieces, Charles Landow discusses stories on China and Africa, as well as a report on U.S. international...
View ArticleLocal Aid Works Better in Somalia
Somalia could fall into the same trap as Afghanistan and Iraq where massive influxes of aid create a short-term boom in the economy but don’t necessarily lay the groundwork for sustainable growth, said...
View ArticleSomalia: Why Orthodox Aid Policy Must Give Way to Battlefield Reality
This article was originally published 17 April 2014 by the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) Jens Mjaugedal, Special Envoy of Norway to Somalia, is frustrated… which is hardly surprising given his...
View ArticleThe Case for Better Aid to Pakistan: Climate, Health, Demographic Challenges...
This article was originally published on 2 March 2015 by New Security Beat, the blog of the Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP) at the Wilson Center. In 2009, the U.S. Congress passed a...
View ArticleA Look at the American ‘Countering Violent Extremism’ Strategy
This article was originally published by Saferworld on 26 July 2016. The US Department of State and USAID have laid out how American development and diplomacy agencies will work together to reduce...
View ArticleThe Inconvenient Truth about Foreign Aid
This article was published by Transformation at openDemocracy on 6 February 2017. For recipients aid has been a very mixed blessing, but for donors it’s been a bonanza. It’s astonishing when you think...
View ArticleHow US Military Aid Can Backfire
This article was originally published by Political Violence @ a Glance on 15 March 2019. Can military forces mitigate insurgent activity—“win hearts and minds”—by implementing small, localized aid...
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