Think Again: The BRICS
The BRICs, however, took much longer to get ready for prime time. Until the beginning of the 1990s, Russia was still behind the Iron Curtain, China was recovering from the Cultural Revolution and the Tiananmen Square unrest, India remained a bureaucr...

Corruption and Development
Foreign aid would have been at least twice as effective if its focus had been reversed—requiring that countries show progress on the corruption front to continue receiving aid....

Broken BRICs: Why the Rest stopped Rising?
Few countries can sustain unusually fast growth for a decade, and even fewer, for more than that. Now that the boom years are over, the BRICs are crumbling; the international order will change less than expected....

David Cameron, beware: the post-2015 aid agenda is an MDG minefield
A good agreement on a post-2015 development agenda will be simple (not too many issues), specific (some numbers), and symmetrical (with obligations and commitments for all countries). ...

AID MISSING IN FOREIGN POLICY DEBATE
In a foreign policy-focused presidential debate that the candidates attempted to steer toward domestic issues, development-related topics were unsurprisingly left out. Republican candidate Mitt Romney did offer clues on his plans for aid to Pakistan,...