Is More Aid Needed to Solve Africa's Woes?
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American economist Jeffrey Sachs has a novel way to tackle African poverty: Shower more aid on the world's poorest continent.
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Kofi Annan willl seek $1.5bn to deal with what the UN calls the world's forgotten emergencies, many in Africa.
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Africa's economy will grow faster this year, but changes are still needed for it to catch up with the rest of the world.
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The BBC's Sanjoy Majumder finds international aid has got to Sri Lanka, but not necessarily to the people who need it most.
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With Africa lagging behind in  global development goals and rich countries cutting aid,  leaders of multilateral financial institutions decided on  Friday it was time to mobilize resources to reduce extreme  poverty on the continent.
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Now is the time to act on a constellation of problems impacting Africa. That is the view of the UK government's recently established Commission for Africa, which yesterday talked to specialists working in the ...
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Despite large amounts dedicated to the fight against AIDS, UK Secretary of International Development Hilary Benn has said that more money is required.
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U.S. aid should focus more on reducing poverty in the poorest countries instead of being driven primarily by security concerns, a coalition of U.S.-based charities said on Thursday.
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ARUSHA, Tanzania  - African leaders lobbied the  Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria for more money  Wednesday to solve a cash crunch facing its work, seen as vital  for the continent's health, officials said.
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BRUSSELS, Jul 14 (IPS) - Anti-poverty campaigners are concerned that a new  European Union proposal for improving development aid may not  result in sufficient extra money for health and education in poor  countries.
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Climate change and aid to Africa are top issues for leaders of industrialized nations.
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Governments and aid groups are failing Africa by giving emergency food donations instead of addressing the causes of hunger crises, Oxfam said in a report released Monday.
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With Africa lagging behind in global development goals and rich countries cutting aid, leaders of multilateral financial institutions decided on Friday it was time to mobilize resources to reduce extreme poverty on the continent.
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Elections in the next few weeks  will bring new faces and new hope to a clutch of African  countries, but many of the poor, war-damaged continent's  nascent democracies face major hurdles in the coming year.
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The World Bank and IMF are poorly suited  to lead the flow of aid to Africa, which would be more  effective if it was distributed in line with a nation's needs,  not competing donor interests, a U.N. agency said.
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Proponents say the Ibrahim Prize will help improve the continent's crippling governance problem.
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Britain's treasury chief called Thursday for half a trillion dollars in new aid for poor nations, particularly in Africa, a continent where Prime Minister Tony Blair said a tsunami-scale death toll happens every week.