This recent article from the Global and Mail about the increasing risks of working internationally, and the insurance required to address it. The President of TGF Insurance which deals with these risks says: "While some expat employers may not consider consultants who work for them overseas to be employees technically, Mr.
Global Affairs has issued the long awaited refresh for the monitoring services in support of Canadian international development assistance projects and programs on buy and sell (h
Throughout the IAR process the McLeod Group has published a series of op-eds on different facets of international assistance. Today's publication on "Why Ethiopia" discusses why simple solutions are not enough.
This recent experience confirmed what I see as a worsening trend in international development. We consultants get a bad rap, but these days, I’d say the problem with consultants is not us, it’s the people who hire us, manage us, and use (or don’t use) our work.
The amount of Canadian financing for humanitarian aid is impressive, but in the absence of a published strategy for our international humanitarian work it is not clear where our priorities lie.
The American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2015, 7(1): 22–53 has published The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluations, By Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster, and Cynthia Kinnan.
Aid is best spent in poor, well-governed countries. That isn’t where it goes