Development Aid related content 

Microsoft chairman says doubling EU research budget would have 'huge impact' on the world's poor. The European Union should devote more funding to research and innovation...

The EU must do more to help the world's poorest people. Europe should be proud of its record on aid and development, as the writers of one of last week's letters noted (“EU...

The EU is failing to show political leadership at a crucial time. Over recent months, you have on several occasions focused on how the EU is trying to – and could – make...

Rich countries have pledged vast sums to help the world's poor deal with the effects of climate change, but the talk is often not backed up with action. The world's poorest...

Growth is necessary but not sufficient to reduce poverty and inequality. The EU's new growth-led development policy has many positive points (“Commission aims to attach...

Funding to governments set to decrease. The European Commission wants to concentrate development aid on fewer recipient countries and to attach more conditions to the aid...

Providing aid directly to governments prove more effective than aid for specific projects. Your article “On the trail of ‘disappearing' aid” (16-22 June) fails to...

Austerity measures force fresh look at aid projects. More than half of the European Commission's development aid to the world's poorest countries goes directly to their...

ECA finds flaws in the design of projects funded by the EU through the UN. The European Court of Auditors (ECA) has found major shortcomings in the way that close to a...

EU looking at changes to its aid policies as the world's poorest states are increasingly unable to cope. Last week (20 May), the European Union pledged €54.5 million to...

Simon Maxwell assesses the Commission's record on development over the past year and sets out three tasks for 2011. Andris Piebalgs became European commissioner for...

How co-operation on humanitarian and development aid could give some purpose to EU-US summits. Enthusiasm for EU-US summits has long been on the wane in Washington, DC. In...

EU to fall €200m short of its pledges to raise €2.4bn to help poor countries cope with climate change The

Aid commissioner tours worst-hit parts of the country as aid agencies warn that more money will be needed. The European Union's promises of emergency aid to help the victims...

The establishment of the European External Action Service will result in major changes to the way the EU deals with development. The biggest institutional innovation to come...

Areas touched by development policy.

Streamlining financing is a principal challenge for Andris Piebalgs, the European commissioner for development. How effective is the EU's aid? It is a broad, almost...

EU development policy is in the midst of structural changes as it has to deal with a host of complex global challenges. The European Union's international development policy...

Talks recommence after Copenhagen chaos; while concerns remain about finance from rich countries. Almost six months after the Copenhagen climate-change summit ended in...

OECD report finds that many countries fall short of meeting EU targets on development aid. Development aid from the European Union's main donor countries fell in 2009,...