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Current IDS research work on aid cross-cuts a number of our teams and has a primary focus in six areas:
- Aid Practices, Power and Relationships
- Aid and Poverty Reduction
- Rights Based Approaches
- Fragile States
Debates on Aid revolve around developing an international aid architecture fit for purpose in today's global context and the importance of policy coherence across aid, trade and security agendas. This includes such broad-ranging issues as:
- the emergence of new aid donors in Asia and Europe
- the role of aid in supporting progressive change in fragile or failing states
- the case for scaling up aid to Africa to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
But the role of aid also remains contested as illustrated by recent debates on the absorptive capacity of recipient governments and the potentially perverse effects of aid on achieving long term fiscal, institutional and political reforms. Related to the latter are debates as to whether and how aid bureaucracies are learning to respond to complex and rapidly changing environments.
IDS research, information services and policy advisory work on aid seeks to understand and inform these debates both through a rigorous examination of the political and institutional incentives shaping the way in which aid is both delivered and received and through support to critically reflective practice by aid practitioners.
News »»
Foreign Policy Magazine names Andy Sumner among top 100 global thinkers of 2011
Published: 7 Dec 2011
Foreign Policy recognises the contribution of work on the New Bottom Billion and the changing global distribution of poverty.
What next for gender equality, women’s rights and aid effectiveness?
Published: 25 Nov 2011
The Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF-4), which is taking place in Busan, South Korea, will look back at progress made in implementing the Paris and Accra agendas and forwards at a new or amended framework for delivering aid. The High-Level Forum represents a critical juncture in the global aid effectiveness and development co-operation agenda.
'Time to listen to local communities,' say Bellagio Initiative Summit participants
Published: 17 Nov 2011
Najat Rochdi of the United Nations Development Programme joins calls for development players and philanthropists to listen to voices on the ground.
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Latest Publications on Aid »
- Sumner, A. (2011) 'Poverty in Middle-Income Countries' , Brighton: IDS
- Glassman, A., Duran, D. and Sumner, A. (2011) 'Global Health and the New Bottom Billion: What Do Shifts in Global Poverty and the Global Disease Burden Mean for GAVI and the Global Fund?', CGD Working Paper 270, Washington, DC: Center for Global Development
- Sumner, A. (2011) 'Where Do The Poor Live?', World Development (In Press), Amsterdam: Elsevier
- Henson, S. and Lindstrom, J. (2011) ''A Mile Wide and an Inch Deep'? Understanding Support for Aid', Draft IDS Working Paper , Brighton: IDS
- Lindstrom, J. and Henson, S. (2011) 'What Does the Public Think, Know and Do about Aid and Development?' , Brighton: IDS