All posts tagged "Overseas aid"

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  First build the foundations: Shaida Badiee on governments’ misplaced aid policies

  After nearly two decades running the World Bank’s Development Data Group, Shaida Badiee now works to help developing nations improve their data systems. And she has a clear message for

  • Posted March 2, 2021
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  UK appoints head of merging foreign and aid departments

  Sir Philip Barton has been appointed permanent under-secretary at the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). Barton will head up the new department, which is to be formed next

  • Posted August 4, 2020
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  Burundi officials told to pay for elections

  Burundi’s civil servants have been told to contribute a proportion of their salaries to a fund established to pay for the country’s 2020 general elections, after international donors halted aid

  • Posted January 25, 2018
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  OECD warns of falling Dutch overseas aid

  An international committee has called on the Netherlands to stop cutting overseas aid, after a review found that the country’s spending had dropped below the United Nations’ target level. Following

  • Posted July 3, 2017
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