Sudip Bandyopadhyay’s Blog

The recent debate about aid, sparked by Dambisa Moyo’s book Dead Aid, has polarised the development community.  However, effective aid has an important role to play in the quest for sustainable economic growth and poverty reduction.
In her book, Ms Moyo suggests that government bonds can take the place of development assistance. This is probably unrealistic. [...]

So much taxpayers money is being spent in US and Europe on bailing out the banks that many of them, once significant global players, will be forced to focus on domestic lending to give taxpayers a bang for their buck. Banks that accept state aid are under a lot of political pressure to expand their [...]