Reality of Aid

HIGHLIGHTS

We are left behind – APFSD tackles accelerating progress on Agenda 2030 amid regressing development gains, fighting COVID-19

In the 7th Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) held virtually last May 20, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), government ministers, civil society organizations (CSOs), and other stakeholders...

Aid, Coherence, and (Triangular) Cooperation in the context of Conflict, Fragility and the Climate Emergency | RoA Report 2020 Theme Statement

More than 80% of the world’s poorest will live in fragile contexts by 2030, making the fragility agenda central to the Leave No One Behind and Agenda 2030 discussions. In addition, climate change is a major risk in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, with...

International Financial Institutions: Financing Dependency Through Neoliberalism

Rising to prominence in the wake of World War 2, international finance institutions (IFIs) were formed by multiple countries, purportedly for economic cooperation for postwar reconstruction as well as regulating postwar debt payments between countries. But they have...

On the 2019 ODA data: Donors must meet both aid quantity and quality amid the Covid-19 pandemic

Statement of the RoA International Coordinating Committee | 23 April 2020 (Download Statement with Spanish version) The recently published preliminary ODA data of 2019 show that aid spending by DAC members totaled USD 152.8 billion representing a slight real term...

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the New Development Bank: Paradigm Shift or Rehashing Corporate-led Development?

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the New Development Bank (NDB) have touted themselves as the much-needed alternatives to the Western-dominated traditional International Finance Institutions (IFIs) like the World Bank Group (WBG) and International...

The Fragile Case of COVID 19: How the outbreak exacerbates living conditions in conflict-affected, fragile states

No country is safe amidst the coronavirus global crisis. From those with wealthy economies to those with scarce resources, the effects of the pandemic are widely felt – aggressive lockdowns and curfew, military deployment, unemployment and layoffs, debts, hunger, to...