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13 October 2016

Five challenges for development effectiveness in the SDG era

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Written by Romilly Greenhill, Paddy Carter, Annalisa Prizzon, Catherine Blampied

Sources:

The Final Countdown: Prospects for Ending Extreme Poverty by 2030
State of the Union 2016: EU External Investment Plan
Horizon 2025: creative destruction in the aid industry; PovcalNet: an online analysis tool for global poverty monitoring
An age of choice for development finance: evidence from country case studies
Who are the poor? New regional estimates of the composition of education and health ‘poverty’ by spatial and social inequalities; The State of the Poor: Where are the poor, where is extreme poverty hard to end, and what is the current profile of the world’s poor?

In Kenya, counties with higher poverty rates don't necessarily get more health aid.

Do 'development effectiveness' principles apply to aid invested in the private sector?

The number of people living in extreme poverty has fallen. Except in sub-Saharan Africa, where it has risen, and in fragile states, where poverty is increasingly concentrated.

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