The Trouble with Aid: Why Less Could Mean More For Africa

October 2008 About the Author Jonathan Glennie has worked as a policy analyst in several international development charities. He is currently Christian Aid’s country representative in Colombia. He has played a key role in campaigns in the United Kingdom and around the world, including the Make Poverty History campaign in 2005. Why Less Could Mean…

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The future of global cooperation is circular

November 2023 This report lecture sets out Global Public Investment (GPI) as the foundation of a new era of international public finance—one that breaks decisively with outdated, top-down paradigms and instead embraces mutuality, universality, and shared responsibility. At a time of global turbulence—climate breakdown, economic instability, geopolitical tension, and a crisis of multilateralism—GPI represents a…

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The Future of Aid: Global Public Investment

November 2023 International cooperation has never been more needed, but the current system of “aid” is outdated and ineffective. The Future of Aid calls for a wholesale restructuring of the aid project, a totally new approach fit for the challenges of the 21st century: Global Public Investment. Across the world, billions of people are struggling…

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Unblocking climate and biodiversity finance: global public investment for global missions

October 2024 This report introduces Global Public Investment (GPI) for Global Missions as a bold new paradigm for financing international action on climate and biodiversity. In response to systemic underinvestment, inequitable governance, and fragmented funding, this approach fuses the mission-oriented policy model with a transformative vision for international public finance rooted in mutuality and universality.…

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Time for global public investment

September 2023 This report positions Global Public Investment (GPI) as a transformative agenda for reimagining international cooperation and financing in the 21st century. Faced with a polycrisis of inequality, environmental breakdown, and systemic underfunding, GPI offers a compelling and inclusive framework grounded in the principles of shared responsibility, universal participation, and mutual benefit. Featuring contributions…

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