International Network for Economics and Conflict

In this brief from CGD, Kimberly Ann Elliott argues that with public budgets constrained and agricultural R&D in developing countries virtually nonexistent, donors need to be more innovative in how they deliver aid for agriculture.

This paper reports the results of a randomized evaluation of an unconditional cash transfer and voucher program in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Julie Walz and Vijaya Ramachandran of the Center for Global Development identify ways to multiply the effect of US assistance to Haiti.

This report seeks to identify and summarize lessons learned, opportunities and challenges in relation to the role of the private sector in the context of aid effectiveness.

The Obama administration has pledged to elevate development alongside defense and diplomacy as a core function of foreign policy, and to remake USAID into the world's premiere development agency. Policies for doing so were included in two thorough reviews of U.S. development released in late 2010: the President's Policy Directive on Global Development and the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review. In this report, Connie Veillette examines how well those principles are reflected in the president's FY2012 budget request—whether the rhetoric of reform will be funded for action—and gauges the administration's progress on seven elements of reform articulated in the PPD and QDDR.

This Working Paper examines the flow of financial aid to post conflict countries. It notes that aid is often heaviest directly after a conflict when a country’s institutions are least able to handle the responsibility.