Blog
Expert opinion, insight and comment on today’s most pertinent issues relating to sustainable development and ending poverty
View blogs by topic:
- All topics
- Blended finance
- Climate change
- Covid-19 (coronavirus)
- Crisis finance
- DAC
- Data collection
- Data use
- Development finance
- Disability
- Disaster risk reduction
- Domestic resource mobilisation
- Gender
- Global Public Investment
- Humanitarian assistance
- Inequality
- Kenya
- Leave no one behind
- Nepal
- Nutrition
- ODA (aid)
- Poverty
- Private finance
- Resilience
- Subnational data
- Transparency
- Uganda
Latest blog posts
Japan and the US offset EU aid squeeze in 2023, but the outlook on aid is poor
New data shows an overall increase in aid in 2023, notably from Japan and the US, but forthcoming cuts from Germany and France may be a sign of worse to come.
New DAC data reveals the impact of the Ukraine invasion on aid
The rise in in-donor refugee costs associated with the Ukraine invasion means less money for LDCs. The latest DAC data shows they are paying the price for challenges elsewhere.
Counting excess vaccine donations as ODA inflated aid in 2021: Here's why they still shouldn't count
DI's Euan Ritchie explains how donors counted vaccines as ODA in 2021, and why the current OECD DAC rules on counting vaccines should change to stop inflating aid
The DAC debates: why aid measurement matters for development
The way we measure aid affects the type and quantity provided as well as our perceptions of it. Why are the DAC's rules controversial?