For a small country like New Zealand, in a time of economic pressure, $1.2 billion dollars seems like a lot of money to be spending on helping poor people outside of our borders. It's not though. I explain more in my latest newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/terencew...
New Zealand aid is rising! Kind of. Read my analysis here. terencew.substack.com/p/budget-202...
Good from Charles Kenny and Euan Ritchie on changing ODA thresholds: www.cgdev.org/blog/when-co...
600k a year, over 4 or 5 years, that’s getting up into the mass murder big leagues. Trying to unseat the big H.
Interesting on taxes, transfers and inequality: www.theguardian.com/business/202...
The billions to trillions aid to leverage private finance approach has under-performed big time. Unsurprising. www.cgdev.org/blog/dealing...
White liberals' response to George Floyd's murder was largely to increase symbolic support.
White liberals' exhibited little change in substantive/material policy commitments.
Two-year-old Mohammed Hashim died a year ago today.
His family were Rohingya refugees, and they went from three meals a day to one after US aid cuts.
His father, who Hashim begged for food as he grew weak, told the AP that Marco Rubio lied when he said no one died due to the funding cuts
Interesting tracker of the human costs of US aid cuts: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
Ill health and conservative attitudes in the united states: mailchi.mp/goodauthorit...
The strange case of the $162 million that didn't bark in the night.
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The OECD’s Development Assistance Committee is discussing changes to the rules on which countries are eligible to receive ODA. Any line that the OECD picks will be arbitrary, because there is no clear...
www.cgdev.org
$1,211,278,000 sounds like a lot of money, but is it?
We need an honest reckoning: about what is affordable, about where it makes more sense for the public sector to directly invest, about more realistic ways to spark structural transformation in the poo...
A Harvard study just published estimates Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has already caused 600,000 deaths 2/3 of them children.
That is his legacy in this world.
