The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) has released their preliminary data on foreign aid spending for 2013. The data show an increase in aid of around 6% in 2013 compared to 2012. At nearly $135 billion, net foreign aid reached an [...]
In the year 2000, world leaders adopted the Millennium Declaration, a global commitment to a peaceful, prosperous, and equitable world. The declaration included a set of targets for development and poverty reduction to be reached by 2015. These development targets are known as the Millennium [...]
The first week of February is International Development Week. It is an opportunity to celebrate Canada’s efforts in alleviating poverty around the world, and also an opportunity to think about Canada’s role in international development in 2014 and [...]
Mexico is the world’s 10th-largest oil producer and has some of the largest reserves in the Western Hemisphere. However, most of the easy-to-access reserves have been consumed, and the country’s state oil company Pemex lacks the funds and technology needed to exploit deep-water oil and shale [...]
The purpose of the post is to highlight data and technical details for an ongoing project, which will also be the subject of our work at the Open Data for Development Challenge (Montreal). Readers should first familiarize themselves with the general details outlined [...]
As the 2015 target date of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approaches, deliberations and negotiations are intensifying on what the successor framework should be. As this blog series is demonstrating, the need for a “data revolution” is gaining considerable traction in policy circles. [...]
Open aid data is great, but it becomes really useful when we are able to use it alongside other data feeds. For instance IATI and other donor open aid data presents granular project level information, but this is still fairly general and aggregated when compared to the rich quantitative and [...]
Transparency may have entered the mainstream in 2013, but did it deliver on its ‘revolutionary’ promise? Zoe Smith looks back at the achievements of the movement this [...]
The Canadian government’s announcement of a new international trade strategy, the Global Markets Action Plan, has garnered predictable criticism and support. Reactions have ranged from fears that Canada should become a wandering salesperson, to great enthusiasm for a long-awaited return to common [...]
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 [...]
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