Corruption undermines development and reduces the effectiveness of development aid. Illicit financial flows are a consequence of flourishing corrupt practices, often amongst the rich in society. Such flows, estimated at USD1 trillion a year, drain the resources that should be invested in...

Corruption undermines development and reduces the effectiveness of development aid. Illicit financial flows are a consequence of flourishing corrupt practices, often amongst the rich in society. Such flows, estimated at USD1 trillion a year, drain the resources that should be invested in...

The study analyses the strengths and weaknesses of current EU engagement in fragile states, and in particular its support to conflict prevention and periods of transition, within the broader international context. It examines the limitations of the instruments and methods implemented by the EU...

The "United Nations Millennium Declaration", endorsed in 2000, and the accompanying Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), adopted in 2002, have been important instruments in streamlining and coordinating international development action. Since the targets were defined, significant progress has...

This briefing paper examines international development cooperation from the perspective of the right to water and sanitation. It focuses on the role of the European Union (UE) and asks where and how human rights approaches could be better integrated in its policy and practice. Section 1 examines...

Due to considerable overlaps between development and climate finance and the danger that funding is diverted from existing development assistance it would be important to define a baseline against which additionality can be measured. So far, no internationally agreed definition exists. The EU...

The European Union has expressed its intention to concentrate its development aid resources where they are needed the most. To this purpose, the Commission has proposed to apply national per capita income-based criteria for the identification of countries that may no longer qualify for EU...

For the next Multiannual Financial Framework for 2014-2020 the European Commission proposes to introduce loan and grant blending facilities into the Development Co-operation Instrument (DCI). These facilities have succeeded in leveraging considerable development finance from development banks...

This study contains an analysis of the key principles of the European Union's development cooperation policy with Latin America. The following issues are of particular importance : i) The relevance of cooperation with middle-income countries, especially those in Latin America and the Caribbean....

Linking Relief, Rehabilitation and Development (LRRD) tries to harmonize short-term relief and long-term development through effective political and financial coordinating mechanisms. Within the current EU legislative framework, LRRD is broadly considered in the Humanitarian Aid Instrument,...