Governing Aid

Making foreign aid work for development.

GEG’s Governing Aid programme researches the governance of foreign aid, with particular attention to the perspective of aid recipients, the politics of aid allocation, and the design of aid agencies. GEG fosters a research network of scholars and policy-makers – in donor and recipient countries – to influence debates around aid policy and to improve the outcomes of aid practices.


Negotiating Aid

Between 2005 and 2007, GEG carried out research on the factors accounting for the bargaining power in aid negotiations of governments in eight African countries: Ghana, Mali, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, Ethiopia and Botswana. Visit the Negotiating Aid page for more information and publications.

The GEG Guide To The (Dead) Aid Debate

Stop aid. Increase aid. Reform aid. The debate about aid and its effectiveness (or lack thereof) received new impetus when Dambisa Moyo, former World Bank and Goldman Sachs economist, proclaimed that aid to Africa simply doesn’t work in her book, Dead Aid. The GEG Guide to the (Dead) Aid Debatesurveys the aid debate, looking beyond Moyo and other well-known contributors to also include voices from the margins. It also includes links to the GEG blog series on the aid debate, recommended reading, a guide to interpreting the evidence behind the aid debate, and other GEG research on foreign aid.

The GEG blog: Aid

Visit the GEG blog to read the analysis of GEG researchers and guest bloggers.


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