protection through to humanitarian intervention. This Research Paper looks at resilience as a theme of development strategy and …

measures to achieve Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). A MDGs status report on Kenya indicates that progress has been made …

Aid is still an important feature of the development landscape. Fragile states, in particular, have the greatest … development needs but due to their poor governance they are the least likely countries to use aid effectively to meet their … development challenges. In this paper, we explore which fragile states receive most aid flows, which donors are particularly …

This paper applies Marcel Mauss' Gift Theory in conjunction with Qin Yaqing's Relational Theory to Chinese foreign aid …. It proposed that this approach allows to conceptualise Chinese aid to Africa as a continuous gift cycle initiated in …, China symbolically affords the recipient status in a way that Northern aid does not. The real existing power asymmetries …

countries, an idea that captivates policymakers in international aid and trade diplomacy. A lengthy literature and recent data … development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …

Most rich countries developed without aid, and this 'self-development' has some intrinsic advantages. In today …'s massively unequal world, however, such an approach would imply very low levels of human development for several generations for … many poor countries. Aid can therefore usefully be thought of as a necessary but 'second-best option'. The challenge then …