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Governments will agree on new development policy targets at a UN summit in September. But how will they be paid for? (Photo: un.or)

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What place for aid in the new era of development?

At the start of the year the European Commission proclaimed 2015 as the ‘European year for development’. But perhaps more appropriate would have been to describe it as the year when the methods for financing development policy changed.

In September government leaders will meet in New York to agree on the next generation of development policy targets - the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These will replace the Millennium Development Goals which aimed to halve the number of people l...

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Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Governments will agree on new development policy targets at a UN summit in September. But how will they be paid for? (Photo: un.or)

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Author Bio

Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

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