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Why Global Education Financing Must Be Part of Europe's Financial Transaction Tax Revenues for Development

May 1, 2013, Sarah O’Hagan and Rebecca Winthrop

Fund - Don't Cut - U.S. Soft Power

April 30, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon and Gen. David Petraeus

Why Congress Should Care About the International Aid Transparency Initiative

April 17, 2013, George Ingram

Transforming Foreign Assistance

April 15, 2013, Rev. David Beckmann, George Ingram and Jim Kolbe

Obama’s Budget and International Affairs: Level Funding but Noteworthy Changes

April 11, 2013, George Ingram

USAID Sets Model for Transparent Policymaking

April 10, 2013, George Ingram

A Comparative Analysis of U.S. and Japan Foreign Aid Policies for Disaster Reduction

April 2013, Goshi Tsukamoto

China’s Increasing Interest in Africa: Benign but Hardly Altruistic

April 5, 2013, Yun Sun

U.S. Development Assistance and Sub-Saharan Africa: Opportunities for Engagement

April 2013, George Ingram and Steven Rocker

Syria's Children are in Desperate Need of Educational Aid

April 2, 2013, Maysa Jalbout

How African Governments Should Respond to the Impact of the U.S. Sequester

March 27, 2013, Julius Agbor and Brandon Routman

Are Aid Donors Repeating Mistakes in Myanmar?

March 16, 2013, Lex Rieffel and James Fox

Too Much, Too Soon? The Dilemma of Foreign Aid to Myanmar/Burma

March 2013, Lex Rieffel and James W. Fox

Foreign aid is not always a blessing. Countries in recent years that appear to have received too much aid too soon include Cambodia and Nepal. The record of foreign aid around the world is littered with cases of wasteful and even harmful projects and programs.

March 15, 2013, Lex Rieffel, The Irrawaddy

An Early Assessment of Foreign Aid to Myanmar

March 14, 2013

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Learning to ‘Coexist with Risk:’ The Essence of Japan’s Technical Cooperation with Central American Countries

February 5, 2013, Goshi Tsukamoto

How Effective Is the World Bank at Targeting Sub-National Poverty in Africa? A Foray into the Murky World of Geo-Coded Data

February 4, 2013, Laurence Chandy, Natasha Ledlie and Veronika Penciakova

Efforts to Introduce Inclusive Planning in Egypt

January 2013, Kei Sakamoto

Establishing Good Governance in Fragile States Through Reconstruction Projects: Lessons from Iraq

January 2013, Seiki Tanaka and Masanori Yoshikawa

Between Caution and Controversy: Lessons from the Gulf Arab States as (Re-)emerging Donors

December 2012, Bessma Momani and Crystal Ennis

Old Friends, New Neighborhood: The United States, the GCC, and their Responses to the Arab Spring

December 2012, Shadi Hamid

Return on American Humanitarian Aid: They Like Us

December 10, 2012, David L. Caprara and Ken Ballen

Learning to Compete: Is Small Beautiful? Small Enterprise, Aid and Employment in Africa

December 2012, John Page and Måns Söderbom

Climate Finance and Global Development Post-2012: Clearing the Fog at Doha

December 4, 2012, Timmons Roberts

Unrest in Egypt: Political Challenges to Economic Stabilization

November 26, 2012, Hafez Ghanem