The development community agrees on the need to address conflict and fragility for global security and sustainable … innovative and more flexible financing methods worth considering. Official Development Aid remains critical, but blended finance … lens presented in the OECD 2018 States of Fragility Framework. The data shows a positive relationship between blending …

provide further policy guidance in support of the OECD DAC Blended Finance Principles, whose focus is unlocking commercial … the management, capital structure, investment strategy and portfolio allocation of the surveyed blended finance funds and … discussing the development strategy, performance tracking and evaluation approach. The 180 responses received illustrate to what …

challenges that remain in the fragility, resilience and stability space. It is not intended as holistic policy guidance on “how …This study and its associated guidance contribute to advancing thinking and understanding about one of the most … summarises new and emerging instruments and approaches in financing stability and resilience, and points to some of the gaps and …

Bilateral donors use foreign aid to pursue soft power. We test the effectiveness of aid in reaching this goal by …

conditionality making China's aid model different to Western donors. China dominates as a donor for Zimbabwe with substantial aid … environmental aid from China, the magnitude of environmental aid from Western donors suggests there is a need to explore other areas … to leverage the effect of environmental aid on the environment. Overall we find that aid disbursements are significantly …