Experience teaches that the Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH) will need a financing facility if it is to garner widespread acceptance among low-income countries. The promise of financing is a well-established carrot to encourage countries to assume new convention-imposed obligations...

The influence of NGOs in international development policy and practice has grown exponentially since the end of the Cold War. These NGOs' agendas now compete with donor states' in setting the priorities for international development assistance. Indeed, many NGOs now claim that the legitimacy of...

Recent development challenges highlight a pressing need to re-evaluate whether the post-World War II behemoths of multilateral development finance are up to the tasks being demanded of them today. The institutions that dominate the current order, the United Nations (“UN”) and the World Bank,...

Pressures rippling through the universe of international development aid over the last fifteen years are transforming overseas development aid from a top-down, government-only endeavor into a multi-layered, multi-party endeavor which engages governments and citizens at every level. In addition,...

Many of us share a common belief in the supreme value of education as a central tool in the fight against poverty, the achievement of growth, and the empowerment of citizens in both the developed and the developing world. As put in the inimitable words of Amartya Sen, to build a country, build a...

Recent development challenges highlight a pressing need to re-evaluate whether the post-World War II behemoths of multilateral development finance are up to the tasks being demanded of them today. The institutions that dominate the current order, the United Nations (“UN”) and the World Bank,...