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Tackling Development Effectiveness: A spectrum of unfinished business(es)

by Pauline Ngirumpatse Making aid and development more effective has been a central aim of development co-operation in the last two decades. Successive meetings have brought together donors and recipients

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New Development Landscape and its Challenges

by Maryam Almasifard, Development Specialist This blog post looks at the challenges and shifts that the development landscape has experienced over the last decade. It argues for the need of

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Harnessing Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Development Effectiveness

By Emmanuel Letouzé and Micol Stock The development effectiveness landscape has been significantly transformed since the two major milestones of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness in 2005 and the

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Bolivia, the Latin American Cinderella

by Lily Peñaranda. Southern Voice’s Rethinking Development Effectiveness project aims to understand how new actors and dynamics are shaping the global development cooperation arena today. For this, Bolivia was selected

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Five Questions for New Metrics to Assess Development Effectiveness

by Mustafizur Rahman and Sherajum Monira Farin There is an urgent need to revisit the metrics of assessing development effectiveness of development cooperation. It is underpinned by significant changes in

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Need for International Support Measures for Graduating LDCs

A rising number of countries will be leaving the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) group in the coming decades. There is a need for creating new regime of international support measures

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The time is ripe for Southern perspectives

by Andrea Ordóñez, Southern Voice Director Originally published by onthinktanks.org  As the Think Tank Initiative ends, Andrea Ordóñez was invited to give the keynote of the last day at the

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Non-traditional aid in Uganda: Weighing private vs public priorities

by Job Lakal, Research Analyst, Macroeconomics at Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) Between July and November 2018, I had the opportunity to study the political economy of development effectiveness in

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The quest to measure South-South cooperation

by Prof. Neissan A. Besharati This year marks forty years of the adoption of the Buenos Aires Plan of Action (BAPA). So it is no coincidence that I have spent

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Why do we need to rethink Development Effectiveness?

by Dr. Debapriya Bhattacharya & Sarah Sabin Khan, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) This is the first of a series of articles of Southern Voice’s new programme on development effectiveness.