A couple of weeks ago I caught up with Jeffrey Sachs at the World Health Assembly in Geneva. He made a short statement for us which we recorded and blogged about here. In it Professor Sachs repeated his well known view that there is ‘no better investment’ for rich countries than to ringfence 0.1% of [...]

European Commissioner for Development, Andris Piebalgs welcomes CONCORD Aidwatch Report 2010 released today (10th June). The report entitled “More and Better EU aid can score Millennium Development Goals” features an EU-wide assessment of progress on aid quantity and quality, and a country-by-country report on how each Member State is progressing towards their 2010 individual intermediate [...]