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Tag: ethiopia

Jobs for refugees in transit: the new aid conditionality

Does the $500 million Jobs Compact for Ethiopia represent innovative finance for development or a risky gamble?

Published October 9, 2016
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged aid, ethiopia, jobs compact, refugees

Aid dilemmas bypassed by Busan Partnership

UK parliamentarians have instructed Andrew Mitchell to impose conditions on foreign aid to fragile or conflict-related countries such as Rwanda and Malawi. Have they given thought to what happens to the poor when aid is withdrawn as a punishment for bad government?

Published January 5, 2012
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged aid conditionality, ethiopia, malawi, UK

Addis treads in Chicago footsteps

The Ethiopia Commodities Exchange is a brave initiative to hook up farmers to customers they would never find within narrow local markets.

Published June 21, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged commodity trading, ethiopia, food security

Getting better maybe

Fashionable selections of development success stories should be qualified by the reality that data collection in Africa is slow and unreliable.

Published June 15, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged development data, ethiopia, poverty reduction

Politics dictates UK bilateral aid review

The UK International Development Secretary, Andrew Mitchell, has a tough job in expanding UK aid when other government spending is being cut. His bilateral aid review chooses some risky partners.

Published March 16, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged ethiopia, foreign aid, fragile states, UK
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Sluggish in the doldrums of what happens.
Me waiting until I was nearly fifty
To credit marvels. Like the tree-clock of tin cans
The tinkers made. So long for air to brighten,
Time to be dazzled and the heart to lighten.

Seamus Heaney, from Seeing Things