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Blog Post
December 02, 2010
This is a joint post with Rita Perakis.
The UK Department for International Development is getting down to real business on adopting results-based approaches to aid. It will allocate future resources across country and regional programs on the basis of “results offers”, as explained here. (...
Blog Post
November 10, 2010
This is a joint post with Julie Walz and originally appeared on The Broker Website.
The new Dutch government plans to cut spending on foreign aid from 0.8% to 0.7% of gross national income. Of course, by international standards, the Netherlands will remain one of the most generous n...
Multimedia
November 01, 2010
Heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and cancers are usually considered diseases of the rich world, the result of too much food and too little exercise. But these serious diseases are already a huge problem in the developing world, accounting for about half of the burden of disease. Yet new ...
WORKING PAPERS
November 01, 2010
Once rich-world woes, non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and cancer account for half the burden of disease in the developing world. Yet Rachel Nugent finds that barely 3 percent of aid and philanthropic spending on health addresses this neglected health crisis.