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The future of donor agencies in Africa: an open and honest debate
The final plenary at this year’s CSAE conference asked about ‘The future of donor agencies in Africa, and was chaired by Stefan Dercon (CSAE director, University of Oxford). The participants were Lindy Cameron (Director General, DFID), Albert Engel (Internal Director … Continue reading
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Tagged Aid, Climate change, Development, DfID, GIZ, OxCSAE2017, Oxfam
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Closing session: The Future of Donor Agencies in Africa
What should be the role of donor agencies in Africa in the coming years? This is the question that is central to this year’s CSAE Conference closing session. Our speakers for this session are Lindy Cameron (DfID), Albert Engel (GIZ) and … Continue reading
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The economy wide impact of HIV/AIDS and the funding dilemma in Africa: Evidence from a dynamic life cycle horizon of Uganda
Despite remaining a major killer in Africa, the HIV pandemic has been tamed medically into a chronic disease through advances in treatment drugs – antiretroviral therapies (ARTs). However, the full economic costs, over a lifecycle horizon, of keeping people on … Continue reading
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Tagged Aid, Health, HIV/AIDS
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Universal access to HIV treatment: fiscal sustainability and incentives.
Before the advent of anti-retroviral therapies in the nineties, being infected by the HIV virus was equivalent to a death sentence. Now, thanks to remarkable advances in medical research, people who are HIV+ have the possibility to considerably increase their … Continue reading
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Tagged Aid, Development, Health, HIV/AIDS, Macro Policy Management
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Community-Based Development initiatives: Who in the village hears about them and who doesn’t? And how?
Community-based development programmes, known for placing greater control of resources and decision-making in local hands, have long been an important part of development policy. But these programmes are also behest with their own challenges and limitations. One of these is … Continue reading
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Tagged Aid, Community-Based Development, Development, Poverty, Social Networks
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The Future in Mind: Aspirations and Forward-Looking Behaviour in Rural Ethiopia
A person’s aspirations, or goals and targets for their future, can be a driving force in their life, providing motivation and guiding their choices. In forming aspirations, all people dismiss some options for their future lives, and fail to even … Continue reading
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Tagged Aid, Aspirations, beliefs, Development, Education, Ethiopia, Social Networks
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Agricultural Technology and Structural Change
Developing countries employ a relatively large share of their workers in agriculture, and the labor productivity of those agricultural workers is only a fraction of that found in the developed world. Together, these two facts account for a significant portion … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Aid, Development, Growth, Labour, productivity, technology
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State Capacity in Developing Countries
A state that is able to protect its citizens, enforce property rights and provide public goods acts as the backbone of a functional economy. Researchers call this ability of the state to carry out its objectives ‘state capacity’, and there … Continue reading
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Tagged Aid, CSAE2014, Development, Institutions, Public Goods, Taxation
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Fungibility and off-budget aid
If you’ve been following development blogs for a few years, you probably remember The Great Fungibility Debate of 2010 that was sparked by a paper in the Lancet written by researchers at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. To … Continue reading
What comes after the Millennium Development Goals?
In 2000 the United Nations adopted the Millennium Development Declaration, which committed their members to a new global partnership to tackle poverty and other development challenges. In 2005, under the leadership of Jeffrey Sachs, a number of time-bound targets were … Continue reading
Posted in Institutions and Growth, Policies to Protect the Poor
Tagged Aid, Conflict, Growth, Institutions
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