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Whatever Happened to the Aid Effectiveness Agenda?
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- December 6, 2016
In the early 2000s, Western donors finally recognized that they were partly to blame for foreign aid’s often disappointing results. The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, adopted in 2005, was the result of that soul-searching. The Declaration was based on five core principles, including recipient countries’ ownership of their poverty reduction strategies, donors’ alignment with
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Gender and Peacebuilding: Trudeau Can Do More to Support Gender Rights in Africa
- Analysis
- December 1, 2016
By Dr. Annie Bunting With the Canadian government about to confirm the deployment of peacekeepers to Africa (likely to Mali), and Prime Minister Trudeau’s recent visit to Liberia and address to the Francophonie on the centrality of the rights of women and girls, it is important to reflect critically on both these agendas in tandem.
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Global Nightmare, False Alarm — or a First Step to a New Geopolitical Order?
- Analysis
- November 22, 2016
We have had a few days now to calm our jangling nerves. President-elect Trump has already had a civilized conversation with President Obama and “promised” to keep a couple of features from Obamacare. But he is going to be an almost omnipotent president, controlling both Congress and Senate and, maybe worse for Americans, shaping the
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Trump’s Mixed Signals Threaten Stability
- Analysis
- November 20, 2016
The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States has ushered in a period of unsettling uncertainty in international affairs. He has called the foundations of American foreign policy into question, but his precise intentions remain mysterious. If Mr. Trump allows this uncertainty to continue — or worse, if he turns his back
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