Development
is dignity...
or it is nothing

With COVID-19 underlining the inequalities and unsustainability of the current structure of development finance, big new ideas are needed. That is what this book provides.

Homi Kharas , Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

I am so excited about this book! It's the first really inspired take on the changes we need to make in the aid and global development system I've seen this year… Rethinking aid as Global Public Investment is critical if we are to secure our undeniably inter-dependent future.

Lysa John, Secretary-General, Civicus (global alliance of civil society)

[The] concept of GPI comes at the right time, when we urgently need new ideas to shape the future of public finance.

Harpinder Collacott, Executive Director, Development Initiatives

[Global Public Investment is] a potential rallying point as we plan ahead how to reconstruct the socio-economic fabric after the pandemic.

Francisco Songane, Former Minister of Health of Mozambique and Founding Director of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

This book articulates what many intuitively feel but few say out loud: that aid needs to be reformed, increased, and maintained for the long term. Not charity, but a smart investment in a more just and sustainable world.

David McNair, Executive Director, Global Policy, The ONE Campaign

Based on scholarly reviews and dialogue, The Future of Aid: Global Public Investment is a demonstration of a rare skill in an academic author; the ability to combine fairly dense ideas with engaging prose to make the text accessible to a broad audience.

Pascale Allotey, Director, United Nations University International Institute for Global Health