How do development and foreign policy connect?
For a long time, the development aid community has worked to ring-fence aid and ensure that it is used specifically for ‘poverty reduction’. Historically, this has its roots in the often well-founded fear that ‘they’ would use ‘our’ money to further geo-strategic political or commercial interests that could only loosely be described as developmental. But what if ‘we’ and ‘they’ were actually on the same side? Would it make sense to reconsider the acute ring-fencing that currently prevails?
Starting with a discussion about Ethiopia on 6 December, ODI will be organising a series of meetings exploring where development and foreign policy meet. The programme is being prepared. In the meantime, why not help us think through the issues by contributing to this blog?..
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