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The Future of Aid Global Public Investment

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“The Global Public Investment approach is our best bet for modernising international public finance for the 21st century.”

Rt Hon Helen Clark, Former New Zealand Prime Minister and former UNDP Administrator

The Future of Aid
Global Public Investment

International cooperation has never been more needed, but the current system of “aid” is outdated and ineffective.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 to get by in unequal and unsustainable societies, and international public finance, which should be part of the answer, is woefully deficient. Engagingly written by a well-known expert in the field, The Future of Aid calls for a series of paradigm shifts.

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