Opinion

Sida divides SEK 6-billion NGO pie. Assessments should be public

It has been seven years since the Swedish aid agency Sida had an overhaul of its multi-year financing for non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Now Sida is re-visiting the question of which organisations...

Opinion Editorial February 28, 2020

Norway should double support for World Bank’s IDA

Just before Christmas the World Bank wrapped up negotiations in Stockholm announcing a three-year financing...

Opinion Editorial December 30, 2019

Taking stock of the new MDBs

Two new multinational development banks were established in 2014-2015, the BRICS countries’ New Development...

Opinion Editorial November 29, 2019

Bring China into the international financial system

Will China indebt the world? China has risen rapidly to become the world’s largest infrastructure creditor....

Opinion February 05, 2019

Norway’s International Forest and Climate Initiative – 10 years of kissing frogs

The organisers of the Oslo Redd conference are profiling a little Tanzanian frog that has been named...

Opinion June 27, 2018

A vanishing Nordic aid agenda

Historically, the Nordic donors have operated as a block on the global development scene with joint efforts...

Opinion Editorial April 26, 2018

Sida should initiate independent review of its failure to warn Oxfam

A decade ago an official at Sida warned about a sexual abuser working in a key position at Oxfam, but...

Opinion Editorial March 23, 2018

Misplaced spending. Foreign aid does not reduce migration

While Western governments invest billions of foreign aid dollars in programs aimed at reducing the flow...

Opinion February 26, 2018

Norway’s ODA grey zone

For the last seven years Norway has received a clear message from the OECD that nuclear disarmament efforts...

Opinion January 26, 2018

WHO on MSF patent challenge: a win in India could save lives

MSF’s unprecedented legal challenge of the patent on Pfizer’s pneumonia vaccine Prevenar 13 in India...

Opinion December 15, 2017

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