Research

Aid and Militarism: Unpacking Peacekeeping and Security Efforts in Asia

This Reality Check aims to contribute to strengthening and popularizing the discourse on militarization of ODA in Asia Pacific. Through...

What Cooperation for What Kind Development?

This issue of Reality Check focuses on the development of Latin America and Caribbean countries. The countries in the region...

The Reality of Aid Report 2016

Technical cooperation remains one of the most heavily used forms of aid, accounting for between a quarter and a half...

Aid and Poverty: Probing ADB Programs for Asia’s Poor

This Reality Check advocates for key messages relating to the performance of the Asian Development Bank as a major development...

The Reality of Aid Report 2014

As the world transitions from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to a post-2015 sustainable development framework, donors, South-South Cooperation providers,...

Development Cooperation in South Asia: A Story of Emerging Donors and IFI Conditionalities

This Reality Check focuses on the opportunities and challenges in development cooperation in South Asia with the rise of India...

World Bank and Conditionality: Undermining Democratic Ownership

This Reality Check provides a critical look at the predominant role the World Bank continues to play in developing countries...

Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development

As 2015 draws to a close, the whole international development community is in a rush to come up with a...

Climate Finance and Development Effectiveness in Africa

This edition of Reality Check provides an insight in the prospects and challenges for climate financing inAfrica. It observes that...

PPP: Private Gains, Public Costs

Governments across the globe are now being encouraged to partner with private for-profit entities in various fields that were formerly...

Turning Water into Power: Debates over the Development of Tanzania’s Rufiji River Basin,1945–1985

In 1928, the irrigation engineer Alexander Telford set out to survey Tanganyika’s Rufiji and Kilombero valleys, a region many believed...