An audio recording of yesterday’s event hosted by the EDCSP at the Houses of Parliament, on “Tackling Global Poverty: where next for Brussels?” is now available here.
June 26, 2012
Audio recording from EDCSP-hosted event on “Tackling Global Poverty” now available
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June 19, 2012
Event report of the EDCSP-hosted round-table on EU aid effectiveness
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On 14 June, EDCSP hosted a private roundtable at ODI, bringing together specialists on aid effectiveness and EU development cooperation to discuss recent work quantifying the benefits of improving aid effectiveness and the information provided by indices of donor performance. Click here to read an event report.
June 12, 2012
New event on 14 June: A private round-table on aid effectiveness
Posted by edcsp under Events, News | Tags: "EU development aid", "Simon Maxwell", aid effectiveness, Annalisa Prizzon, Arne Bigsten, EDCSP, Jean Philippe Platteau, Matthew Geddes, ODI, Romilly Greenhill, Sven Tengstam |Leave a Comment
On 14 June, EDCSP will host a private round-table on aid effectiveness with panellists from the European Commission, the University of Gothenburg and ODI. This round-table will focus on a study for the EU by Arne Bigsten, Jean Philippe Platteau and Sven Tengstam, which quantifies the benefits of measures to improve aid effectiveness. From ODI, Romilly Greenhill and Annalisa Prizzon will present their commentary on the study and Matthew Geddes will present his work on how the EU fares in donor indices. Simon Maxwell, who has examined the practical implications of the study, will chair the discussion.
Speakers include:
- Arne Bigsten - Professor, Development Economics, University of Gothenburg
- Vincent Grimaud – Head of Aid and Development Effectiveness and Financing, DG DEVCO, the European Commission
- Romilly Greenhill - Research Fellow, ODI
- Annalisa Prizzon - Research Officer, ODI
- Matthew Geddes - Research Officer, ODI
An event summary will be available online following the event.
April 30, 2012
Where are the biggest gains in aid effectiveness –practically speaking?
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Simon Maxwell examines the practical implications of the benefits of measures to improve aid effectiveness at the European level, by analysing the European Commission funded report on the subject by Bigsten, Platteau and Tengstam and an EDCSP commentary by Prizzon and Greenhill.
April 11, 2012
EDCSP update – April 2012
Posted by edcsp under News, Newsletter | Tags: aid effectiveness, development, EDCSP, EU, European development policy, European Report on Development. public consultation, ODI, Rio +20 |Leave a Comment
Cli
ck here to read the EDCSP team’s monthly update for April
April 10, 2012
The Aid Effectiveness Agenda: The benefits of going ahead
Posted by edcsp under Research | Tags: aid effectiveness, Annalisa Prizzon, Division of Labour, European development policy, Romilly Greenhill |Leave a Comment
Those arguing for better coordination of aid and for a greater multilateral share have long based their arguments on claims about savings in transactions costs or greater efficiency in allocation. For example, the big EU push on Division of Labour, back in 2007, was based on this argument. A calculation by consultants HTSPE suggested that the EU could save €3-6bn a year by reducing donor and sector proliferation.
A study in 2011 by Bigsten, Platteau and Bengstam, again for the EU, deepened and updated the analysis. EDCSP has commissioned a review of the new study, by Annalisa Prizzon and Romilly Greenhill from ODI.
Click here to read Annalisa and Romilly’s commentary.
November 25, 2011
What will the EU push for at Busan?
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Ahead of the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness at Busan, read the EU’s common position here.
August 31, 2011
Budget support is becoming an endangered species: what Busan must do to save it
Posted by edcsp under Blog | Tags: "Simon Maxwell", aid, aid effectiveness, budget support, Busan, development |Leave a Comment
Developing country Finance Ministers arriving at the Busan High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in November may be surprised to discover that their favourite way of receiving aid – budget support – is fast becoming an endangered species: swept away by donor scepticism about good governance and budget accountability; and swallowed by the contemporary need to demonstrate that every dollar or pound of aid delivers demonstrable development results. In this EDCSP Opinion, Simon Maxwell sets out a way forward for Busan to help shape future policy on budget support.
Register your vote on whether the EU Development Commissioner, Andris Piebalgs, was right in setting a target of 50% of EC aid as budget support.
