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Recent Blogposts

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Geostrategic Axes and Transitions in Development Cooperation

José Antonio Alonso - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
The international aid system is going through one of the most delicate moments in its history, largely due to its inability to respond effectively to changes in the global environment. The crisis affects the broad universe of development cooperation, but it is particularly acute in the case of Official Development Assistance (ODA), its most clearly defined component and the one whose foundations have been most eroded.
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The Double Legitimacy Crisis of the Old Aid Order: Four Scenarios for Development Cooperation and their Plausibility

Nadia Molenaers - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
Development cooperation is not simply facing another cyclical debate about effectiveness. It is facing something deeper: a crisis of the very roles through which it has historically been justified. For decades, development cooperation drew its legitimacy from two overlapping functions.
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Rethinking “Development”: Why We Must Embrace Uncertainty

Ian Scoones - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
When Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, stood on the Davos stage and proclaimed that the current moment is not one of transition but one of rupture, everyone seemed to agree. But what new ways of thinking are needed to navigate this momentous rupture when geopolitical realignment, radical responses to climate change and new economic relations must emerge?
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