Opinion

Coronavirus vaccine, ODA and the need for transparency

Plans are underway for an aid-financed mechanism, the Gavi Covax Advance Market Commitment (AMC), that would provide free or subsidised COVID19 vaccine to almost half the world’s population. Discussions...

Opinion Editorial June 16, 2020

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How women’s employment affects partner violence

It is a common belief in the aid community that women’s employment can help to reduce intimate partner...

Opinion May 06, 2020

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Helping African businesses through the pandemic

The EU, Bretton Woods and national donors are pledging tens of billions of euro to mitigate the hardship...

Opinion Editorial May 06, 2020

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Unlock WHO funding

With the myriad far-reaching health, humanitarian and economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, scarce...

Opinion Editorial April 02, 2020

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...

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