Millennium Villages Blog

Is Canada Doing Its Part and More?

In a posting on the Global Brief blog, Millennium Promise CEO John McArthur questions the Canadian government's commitment to foreign aid and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. This week Canadian Development Minister Beverley Oda made a policy speech outlining Canada’s renewed emphasis on improving the quality of its foreign aid dollars. A focus on efficacy is commendable and important, since taxpayer dollars should of course be subject to strict scrutiny in advancing key development objectives in the poorest countries, particularly the Millennium Development Goals. But an emphasis on quality cannot be presented as a false choice against quantity, . . . [more]