04 March 2009

Development funding & global crisis

It takes just a minute or two of googling "will development aid suffer from crisis?" to find a deluge of high quality hits on the topic from very well placed sources ranging from OECD and Worldbank to UN and other funding and NGO pages.
Will the development crowd be as blind as most were early autumn last year about the global financial crisis and the effect it would have only a few months later on the so called "real economy" and now rapidly on thousands and thousands of people's jobs and pension payments ?

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I'm not scared and not a pessimist, but lets not play the ostrich and at least listen, think, talk and strategize... Peter

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