Challenges for the Optimal Allocation of Educational Aid: Should MDG Priorities be more prominent? by Christopher Colclough

RECOUP Working Paper Series, 40, March 2011
This paper examines the criteria for aid allocation that are revealed by present practice in the education sector. Using a set of priorities suggested by the MDGs, and recent data on aid flows to different countries, it compares actual with "optimal" allocations according to different interpretations of educational "need". Focussing on British aid, it finds that there are sharp deviations between the volume of aid to education received by different countries and their requirements as suggested by "needs-based" criteria. Significant contrasts between relative resource requirements and aid provision to education are also present when looking at aid flows from all sources.

Relancer les objectifs du Millénaire pour le développement / Reinvigorating the Millennium Development Goals

Ce numéro de septembre 2010),  « Retrouver l'espoir: relancer les objectifs du Millénaire pour le développement», évalue le chemin parcouru vers les objectifs du Millénaire pour le développement (OMD) que tous les pays membres des Nations Unies et de nombreuses organisations internationales ont établis pour 2015.

English version available at:
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2010/09/index.htm

'Restoring Hope: Reinvigorating the Millennium Development Goals' assesses how the world is doing in meeting the MDGs--international development targets that all UN member countries and many international organizations have set for 2015.

Brookings Institution, Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: Education is the Key Missing Link

In this article, David Gartner contends that the Obama Administration’s plan which will be presented at the upcoming MDG Summit is a missed opportunity for advancing education around the world.

Millennium Development Goals: time to step up

Some progress in Africa, but more is needed, argues UN Secretary-General.
Some might view the United Nations’ latest update on progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as a distressing catalogue of unmet ambitions. Others could find in it reasons to believe in the possibility of reaching the targets.

The World Bank Global Monitoring Report 2010: the MDGs after the crisis

The World Bank Global Monitoring Report provides in this 2010 edition a development perspective on the global economic crisis and assesses the impact on developing countries: their growth, poverty reduction, and other Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Finally, it sets out priorities for policy responses, both by developing countries and by the international community.