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Salon.com
August 7, 2000
Laura Rozen |
Bread instead of soldiers On the front lines of war, humanitarian-aid workers do the work of diplomats -- but some say they should stay away from politics.   |
Wired
June 2003
Thomas Keenan |
Tent City At its most basic level, humanitarianism calls out for a special kind of space -- a space of neutrality. Relief work challenges borders and governments; it aspires to create and protect a nonpartisan zone in the name of ordinary people. |
Parameters
Summer 2008
Robert M. Chamberlain |
With Friends Like These: Grievance, Governance, and Capacity-Building in COIN This article questions the assumption that enhancing the power of the state will make the population less likely to support insurgents. |
Parameters
Summer 2007
Brian Reed |
A Social Network Approach to Understanding an Insurgency A network analysis of war and insurgency differs markedly from conventional approaches, a fact that might require us to rethink some of our more conventional analytical tools. |
Parameters
Winter 2005/2006
Jeffrey Record |
Why the Strong Lose Why has the United States fared consistently well against such powerful enemies as Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan and the Soviet Union, but its record against lesser foes is decidedly mixed? |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2005
Radelet et al. |
Aid and Growth Although the impact of aid on economic growth diminishes as aid increases, in countries with stronger institutions or better health, more aid can be absorbed effectively. |
Parameters
Autumn 2006
Liotta & Owen |
Sense and Symbolism: Europe Takes On Human Security A European culture with dubious historical reputation for cosmopolitanism is being thrust upon the global stage at the very moment when its geopolitical concepts are poised on the precipice of desuetude. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2006
Sundberg & Gelb |
Making Aid Work Aid in the past was often guided by geopolitical considerations linked to the interests of donor countries rather than by development objectives. But the end of the cold war and progress toward a new aid architecture should make aid more effective in Africa. |
Parameters
Spring 2004
Robert R. Tomes |
Relearning Counterinsurgency Warfare Thirty years after the signing of the January 1973 Paris peace agreement ending the Vietnam War, the United States finds itself leading a broad coalition of military forces engaged in peacemaking, nation-building, and now counterinsurgency warfare in Iraq. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2005
Peter S. Heller |
Making AID Work An unlikely alliance of rock stars, politicians, and grassroots activists has put the issue of combating poverty at the forefront of global policymaking. Scaling up aid flows is just the start of a complex set of decisions and tough choices. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2005
Raghuram Rajan |
Aid and Growth: The Policy Challenge The best way to get the poor in low-income countries out of poverty is to strengthen economic growth in those countries. But we need more than aid to break the cycle of poverty. |
Parameters
Spring 2005
Kenneth Payne |
The Media as an Instrument of War The media, in the modern era, are indisputably an instrument of war. This is because winning modern wars is as much dependent on carrying domestic and international public opinion as it is on defeating the enemy on the battlefield. |
Parameters
Spring 2006
Eric A. Heinze |
Humanitarian Intervention and the War in Iraq: Norms, Discourse, and State Practice If the idea of humanitarian intervention falls from grace because of its association with the Iraq-U.S. conflict as well as the U.S. war on terror, then a valuable instrument in the tool kit of human rights strategies may be rendered undeservedly useless. |
Finance & Development
September 2008
Deutscher & Fyson |
Improving the Effectiveness of Aid A proliferation of donors and projects has made the governance of aid more problematic. |
National Defense
May 2006
Grace Jean |
Soldiers Sharpen Humanitarian, Diplomatic Skills In preparation for the launch of a humanitarian aid mission at a refugee camp in Iraq, soldiers are being trained to cope with the unpredictable hurdles that come with interacting with people from a different culture. |
Salon.com
December 11, 2002
Michelle Goldberg |
"Emma's War" by Deborah Scroggins When a beautiful, idealistic Western aid worker fell in love with a Sudanese warlord, a terrible tragedy of hunger and violence was set in motion. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2005
Sharpe, Wood & Wratten |
U.K.: More Country Ownership A country-led approach, in which the governments of developing countries themselves define and lead the poverty reduction agenda, is the key to improving aid effectiveness. |
CIO
August 15, 2003
Kathleen Carr |
Keeping an Eye on Refugees At the embattled border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees project (UNHCR) is using a modern solution to solve a problem as old as war itself: making sure aid is distributed equally to those displaced by conflict. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2007
Bourguignon & Sundberg |
Aid Can Work The effectiveness of aid remains a highly controversial issue for economists and development practitioners. However, aid effectiveness is getting better, even though it is tough to prove. |
Outside
December 2009
Joshua Hammer |
Heartbreak. Chaos. Mayhem. Hope? A hard look at the relief effort in the war-torn nation of Chad, where rebels stage their raids on neighboring Darfur and the humanitarian fallout has become the worst show on earth. |
Finance & Development
September 2008
Celasun & Walliser |
Managing Aid Surprises Countries cannot make full use of aid when it is unpredictable |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2007
Bio-Tchane & Yehoue |
Africa's Missing Ingredients How international economic aid can be better directed to entrench development in sub-Saharan Africa. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2006
Schieber et al. |
Getting Real on Health Financing Unless the efficiency of the global aid architecture is improved and countries enhance their ability to put aid to good use, the massive investment in health that is currently taking place will not deliver the improvement in the health of the poor that everybody is striving for. |
Salon.com
August 28, 2000
Ana Arana |
War on drugs 1, human rights 0 On the eve of President Clinton's trip to Colombia, critics say Washington cares more about its war on drugs than human rights. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2009
Michael C. Moynihan |
The Failure of African Aid Western aid to Africa has made poor countries poorer, retarded their economic growth, and entrenched despotic regimes, argues the Zambian-born economist Dambisa Moyo in her new book Dead Aid. |
National Defense
August 2007
Grace Jean |
Defense Technologies for an Uncertain Future The United States is at a crossroads when it comes to developing defense technologies for a future that seems obscure at best. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2005
Aiyar et al. |
The Macroeconomic Challenge of More Aid Here is an analysis of five African countries that received big increases in aid. Their experiences offer useful lessons on an international level in scaling up aid to well-performing poor countries. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2002
Bulir & Lane |
Managing the Fiscal Impact of Aid Poor countries must find better ways to manage spending in the face of volatile and unpredictable aid flows. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2005
Bilal Siddiqi |
Picture This Aiding Development Chart-based analysis of which countries give the most aid and where the money goes. |
Finance & Development
March 2006 |
Letters to the Editor Aid recipients must be more accountable... Why not limit new borrowing?... Redesigning aid... |
Finance & Development
September 2008
Masood Ahmed |
The Next Frontier Low-income countries gain ground in a globalized world, but they still face major challenges. |
Finance & Development
September 2007 |
Letters to the Editor The dark side of aid... Stop misusing PPP calculations... Make antiretroviral drugs available to all... |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2005
Eifert & Gelb |
Coping with Aid Volatility Aid may become even more unpredictable, but there are ways to tackle the problem. To improve aid predictability, donors must lengthen funding horizons, and the annual review and programming cycle must be strengthened at the country level. |
Finance & Development
September 2010 |
Half Empty or Half Full Does aid work? The net impact of aid surges depends on country-specific factors. |
IDB America
August 2007
Andrew Powell |
Tough Love: The Key to Foreign Aid Effectiveness Why is economic aid to allies less effective than aid to countries that are indifferent if not hostile to their donors' foreign policies? |
Salon.com
July 5, 2000
Ana Arana |
Fighting drugs with choppers and poison Even advocates of U.S. military aid think the anti-narcotics package will only unravel the peace with Colombian guerrillas. |
National Defense
June 2008
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Non-Government Aid Crucial To Disaster Relief Operations Organizations such a Project HOPE provide a critical helping hand that supports the broader U.S. goals of global security and stability. |
Salon.com
May 20, 2002
Janelle Brown |
Smoke a joint and your future is McDonald's A federal law passed in a burst of drug war fervor denies financial aid to the country's neediest students... |
Salon.com
October 19, 2001
Janelle Brown |
Optional burqas and mandatory malnutrition After spending 18 months studying Afghanistan, Dr. Lynn Amowitz reports that life under the Taliban is more brutal -- and more complicated -- than we suspected... |
Finance & Development
September 2009 |
Book Reviews Books of economic interest: Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa, by Dambisa Moyo... Successes of the International Monetary Fund: Untold Stories of Cooperation at Work, by Michael A. Clemens... more... |
Finance & Development
September 2008
Elaine Venter |
Point of View: A Work in Progress The Paris Declaration renews focus on aid reform but is still donor-centric |
TIME Asia
October 25, 2010
Aryn Baker |
Live Aid Risks are an inherent part of doing aid work in a war zone. They should not be taken needlessly. But if an aversion to risk undermines the effectiveness of aid, the sacrifice of all those who have died will be in vain. |
ifeminists
May 6, 2003
Carey Roberts |
Feminists Poised to Highjack the Iraqi Reconstruction Effort Once the hostilities ended, President Bush requested a sweeping $2.4 billion humanitarian package to aid in the reconstruction of that country. But if radical feminists get their way, men will be shunted aside by these humanitarian relief efforts. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2005
Jamison & Radelet |
Making Aid Smarter How donor support for primary education can be made more effective. |
Reason
October 2005
Ronald Bailey |
Data: Aiding and Indebting Despite the push to give to sub-Saharan African economies, evidence that aid boosts economic development is hard to come by. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2002
Peter S. Heller & Sanjeev Gupta |
Challenges in Expanding Aid Flows The international community is calling for an increase in foreign development aid to 0.7 percent of industrial country GNP from 0.24 percent of GNP at present. But a large increase in aid flows could pose a number of challenges for the poorest countries. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2005
Berg & Qureshi |
The MDGs: Building Momentum A big push on aid is not the sole answer. International development policy needs to move beyond aid and aim for actions that, together with stronger reforms in developing countries, cohere into a broader big push. |
BusinessWeek
December 26, 2005
Guy Pfeffermann |
Give Africa's B-Schools A Boost Africa's aid donors can relieve a critical shortage of skilled managers. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2005
Basil P. Mramba |
Tanzania: 'Smart' Partnerships A clear national development vision upon which donor support can be anchored is critical for ensuring that aid is well used. |
The Motley Fool
February 2, 2011
Dayana Yochim |
7 Signs of a Student Aid Scam With deadlines for applying for aid approaching, 'tis the season for student aid scams. |
