Development organizations around the world are energized by the possibility of ending extreme poverty by 2030 thanks to dramatic reductions in global poverty over the last decade. What is getting left out of the discussion is the real lesson of the MDGs: When it comes to highbrow debates about [...]
Canada scores a good grade when it comes to transparency. Recently, Publish What You Fund (UK) released its much anticipated 2013 Aid Transparency Index which ranks countries based on efforts on aid transparency. Among 67 donor organizations ranked by the index, Canada placed 8th and is one of only [...]
On October 28, 2013, the North South Institute (NSI) hosted the Ottawa event of Global Transparency Week (GTW). This was one of 18 high-profile events taking place across the globe focused on open data, transparency, accountability and good [...]
Attention is starting to turn to how the ambitious post-2015 agenda will be financed. High expectations are being set for the role that domestic resource mobilization can play in financing the post-2015 development goals. This new NSI Report analyzes recent domestic resource mobilization [...]
This report provides a sense of Canada’s development footprint beyond aid. It does this by drawing on data from The North South-Institute’s Canadian International Development Platform (CIDP) which comprises the most recent data on aid, trade, investment, and migrant remittance flows between [...]
The new Department of Foreign Affairs Trade and Development is an opportunity to elevate the profile of international development in Canadian foreign [...]
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) has released their data on foreign aid spending for 2012. Multiple crises are changing the landscape of foreign [...]
This dashboard provides data and analysis on Canadian owned producing mines in Africa in 2011 and [...]
As the dust begins to settle, and the budget cuts begin to work through the bureaucratic system, it is time to update our initial analysis on cuts to Canada’s international assistance. [...]
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