Development aid to Africa can boost domestic demand on the continent and help ween the global economy from over-reliance on personal consumption in the United States, a senior World Bank official said on Thursday. Click here to access full article.
“Technical and financial partners are supporting different projects that are totally disconnected from one another and from the agriculture policy framework set up by the government,” Jean-Denis Crola, author of the report ‘Aid to Agriculture: from promises to reality on the ground’, told IRIN. To read full article click here.
Publish What You Fund has endorsed MFAN’s Presidential Study Directive message to the White House.
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An engaged public increases aid effectiveness, experts told an EU conference yesterday.
A group of international communications and governance experts told european leaders how public disclosure and public engagement can transform development into social change.
The panel of transparency activists explained how effective communication can strengthen transparency and accountability in donor-finance programmes.
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Netherlands development minister Bert Koenders spoke at the opening of the two-day International Aid Transparency Initiative conference in The Hague yesterday, emphasizing the need for aid transparency in the fight against corruption.
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