Two future paths are available for European development cooperation: either “cooperation”, in which the European Commission takes on the role of network coordinator and Member States take the lead in delivering aid; or “consolidation”, in which the EC plays a progressively larger role in...

Over the last decade, development cooperation has evolved to such an extent that we are now entering 'a new age of global development', characterised by an emphasis on global public goods (GPGs). The increasingly global nature of development challenges clearly indicates that global problems...

Over the last decade, development cooperation has evolved to such an extent that we are now entering 'a new age of global development', characterised by an emphasis on global public goods (GPGs). The increasingly global nature of development challenges clearly indicates that global problems...

Sports tourism is a tool for economic development. Even a lack of resources does not eliminate opportunities for participation in sports tourism. Sports tourism can be a catalyst for economic development. Individually, each of the various sectors of the sports tourism economy can create...

European countries pride themselves on being leaders in spurring development within poor countries. We find that Europe’s approach to development could be characterised as energetically tackling the symptoms of poor economic opportunities for developing countries by providing effective aid,...

The political economy of aid agencies is driven by incomplete information and multiple competing objectives and confounded by principal-agent and collective-action problems. Policies to improve aid rely too much on a planning paradigm that tries to ignore, rather than change, the political...

The establishment of the UK Department for International Development in 1997, and the evolution of the UK’s foreign aid policies, has provoked international interest as a possible model for other countries to follow. The UK now combines in a single government department not only the delivery...

How can the international community save more children’s lives faster and more effectively in the 21st century? This Working Paper analyzes the extent to which “frontloading” and predictable vaccine funding, as proposed by the International Finance Facility for Immunization (IFFIm), is...

There are significant differences of opinion about the merits of additional aid in meeting the MDGs, including whether and how aid should be given in ‘fragile states’, whether additional aid on the scale envisioned can be effectively used even in well-managed economies, and whether the aid...

Donor countries have committed themselves to increase aid to developing countries by 60 percent over the next five years; and larger increases would be needed to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). But there are concerns that there may be a limit on the amount of aid that developing...