Development aid
The truth about foreign aid that politicians won't admit
IPN Opinion article
Despite an unsustainable deficit at home, all three parties want to continue an aid binge abroad.
Our foreign aid target is absurd
IPN News coverage
Bronwen Maddox discusses IPN's paper on the 0.7% aid target
New study - The Ghost of 0.7%
IPN Press release
While the UK's three main political parties agree about a "0.7% target" for foreign aid, a Center for Global Development report, republished in a British edition by IPN, shows that this figure is misguided and wrong.
Fueling waste and corruption: U.S. aid hurts poor more than helps
IPN Opinion article
President Obama has revamped the Bush policy of heath aid to poor countries by widening its scope beyond AIDS to all diseases: it looks like a great idea but it is full of unintended consequences.
End failed healthcare in Africa
IPN Opinion article
Despite massive increases of donor funding for health in Africa, things on the ground are not improving. It's time to examine new methods of delivering healthcare in Africa, in particular harnessing the power of the private sector.
Trusting the African private sector with aid
IPN Opinion article
Because it is channeled through corrupt and dysfunctional ministries of health, most foreign aid for health never makes it to patients. Donors should abandon this model and instead take advantage of Africa's massive private sector.
Aid and debt relief won't help Africa
IPN Opinion article
Sending billions in aid to Africa is like pouring water "into leaky bowls," says the head of an African pro-market think-tank.
"It is laughable to assume that just writing off poor country debts will stop the inefficiency and corruption," said Franklin Cudjoe, head of Ghana-based Imani, who argues that aid bolsters corrupt governments. Forgiving debts just frees up more money for inefficient pet projects aimed at political popularity, he maintains.
Trade, not aid, will eliminate the welfare trap
IPN Opinion article
If foreign aid is the answer, the question has to be, how do you make a corrupt clique rich? By James Shikwati
