Aid

In our work on aid and other forms of development finance, we explore the ways in which the governance of development finance can improve development outcomes.

Our research focuses on three issues:

  1. Analysis of organisations that comprise the global aid system, with a view to improving global aid governance, particularly from the perspective of recipient governments
  2. The politics of donor-recipient interaction
  3. The growing role of corporate actors in development finance, including philanthropic organisations and impact investors
GLF Nematullah Bizhan on BBC Persian HardTalk
Roundtable on the Prospects for Afghanistan: State Capacity and Aid Effectiveness
Call for papers: The politics of risk and uncertainty in aid: approaches, directions and challenges
Understanding Why and How Civilians Resort to Self-Protection in Armed Conflict
Britain has a new aid strategy. But has it got its priorities right?
Canadian Development Aid: Past Practice and Future Partnerships
GEG Senior Researcher publishes article on the future of foreign aid agencies
GEG Research Associate Nilima Gulrajani frames discussion on the the future of aid
The changing face of international aid
The current state of multilateral aid
Richard Manning Discusses the Future of International Aid
GEG at the Challenges of Government Conference
Save the Mothers: Africa's Huge Maternal Death Toll
UK Minister on World Bank Reform
The Dead Aid Debate: GEG Blog
Memo: Paolo de Renzio on Aid Effectiveness
Memo: International Aid Architecture at the Crossroads
GEG Newsflash: Live updates from Busan Aid Effectiveness Conference
Nilima Gulrajani's Chapter in New Book on Aid
The Future of Development Cooperation
In the Balance, BBC World Service
GEG WP 2015/109 Continuity, Aid and Revival: State Building in South Korea, Taiwan, Iraq and Afghanistan
Dr Nematullah Bizhan, Senior Research Associate, GLF 2014-16
Working papers
GEG WP 2015/106 Bilateral donors in the ‘Beyond Aid’ Agenda: The Importance of Institutional Autonomy for Donor Effectiveness
Dr Nilima Gulrajani, Senior Research Associate
Working papers
GEG WP 2015/104 A New Politics of Aid? The Changing International Political Economy of Development Assistance: The Ghanaian Case
Working papers
GEG WP 2008/41 Mali: Patterns and limits of donor driven ownership
Working papers
GEG WP 2007/36 The shifting politics of foreign aid
Professor Ngaire Woods
Working papers
GEG WP 2007/32 Ghana: the political dimensions of aid dependence
Associate Professor Emily Jones
Working papers
Failing to learn: Legacies of aid and state-building
The future of development aid: new international donors
East Asia Seminar Series at St. Antony’s College
Richard Manning to Deliver Lecture on 'International Development in Hard Times'
Peacekeeping: What Works and Why?
Transforming Indonesia: The Challenges of Good Governance and Economic Development