I blogged here highlighting the obsession in international development circles with new ideas and innovations and neglect of regular development interventions and examined the reasons; here questioning the belief that there are new ideas and innovations waiting to make a transformative impact;
This is ridiculous. You're asking donors for money but not letting them tell you what to do.
The whole aid and development economics business needs to be abolished. Countries will rich or poor on their own. This aid culture has created a culture entitlement amongst developing country politicians.
Thank you for laying out lucidly the core issues around international aid, development and public policy in practice. The series is a gem for policy practitioners, young bureaucrats and also the ‘evidence to policy making’ community, to understand how structural issues need to be identified
Love this series! Please consider sharing a case study/example (if any) of a development program supported by international aid, that has helped in the manner you suggest it should. Any from water sector?
This is ridiculous. You're asking donors for money but not letting them tell you what to do.
The whole aid and development economics business needs to be abolished. Countries will rich or poor on their own. This aid culture has created a culture entitlement amongst developing country politicians.
Thank you for laying out lucidly the core issues around international aid, development and public policy in practice. The series is a gem for policy practitioners, young bureaucrats and also the ‘evidence to policy making’ community, to understand how structural issues need to be identified
Love this series! Please consider sharing a case study/example (if any) of a development program supported by international aid, that has helped in the manner you suggest it should. Any from water sector?
Thank you for writing these posts.
- ST