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Category Archives: Poverty Reduction
It’s right to question aid, but better to focus on effectiveness, rather than the 0.7%
Originally posted on Phil Vernon:
A version of this post is on Huffington Post. In the UK, a parliamentary debate can be initiated by popular petition. On 13th June, Parliament will debate the proposition that the government’s approach to foreign…
Links for Thought 12
1) The Real Hamilton: What’s Not to Love? A Bloomberg article that talks about Alexander Hamilton, one of the very early US Treasury Secretaries, and how his ideas to grow the US economy then wouldn’t be accepted by the mainstream … Continue reading
Posted in Economic Thought, Ha-Joon Chang, International Development, Least Developed Countries, Overseas Development Institute, Posts, Poverty Reduction, SDGs, sustainable development goals
Tagged AIIB, anti-corruption, anti-corruption summit, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, BRICS, CAR, Central African Republic, Conflict, Corruption, Development Bank, Development Finance, EBRD, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Ha-Joon Chang, IDS, Institute for Development Studies, institutions, International Development, Joseph Stiglitz, Mushtaq Khan, Ngaire Woods, ODA, ODI, Official Development Assistance, offshore finance, Overseas Development Institute, SDGs, sustainable development goals
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The NSS 2015 & the SDSR 2015: The “Development” parts Part 2
Another also quite obvious development initiative proposed was to continue developing global or international development arena is brought up on page 48, paragraph 5.9 which states that the UK has and will continue to play a leading role in the … Continue reading
Posted in David Cameron, DFID, International Development, International Trade, Least Developed Countries, MDGs, Official Development Assistance, Posts, Poverty Reduction, SDGs
Tagged bad Samaritan, Corruption, David Cameron, golden thread, Ha-Joon Chang, Human Rights, International Development, Joseph Stiglitz, Kicking Away the Ladder, MDGs, Millennium Development Goals, post 2015, post-MDG goals, post-MDGs, post-Washington Consensus, Poverty Redution Strategy Papers, PRSPs, rule of law, SDSR, SDSR 2015, Simon Maxwell, sustainable development goals, UN High-level panel, Washington Consensus, World Bank
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The NSS 2015 & SDSR 2015: The “Development” parts Part 1
Author’s note: Devex won’t accept this so here it goes… So the much awaited National Security Review and Strategic Defence and Security Review 2015 is out. As the title(s) imply, it’s not just a military-centred document, but one that covers … Continue reading
Posted in David Cameron, DFID, Humanitarian Aid, International Development, Official Development Assistance, Posts, Poverty Reduction, World Bank
Tagged 0.7% Legislation, 0.7%/GNI, A Secure and Prosperous United Kingdom, Chevening Scholarship, Commonwealth scholarship, conflict states, Defence, Department for International Development, development, DFID, foreign affairs, foreign aid, fragile states, Home Office, International Development, Marshall Scholarship, National Security Review 2015, NSS 2015, ODA, SDSR 2015, Strategic Defence and Security Review, Strategic Defence and Security Review 2015, Tier 4 Visa, United Kingdom, Visa
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Yet another 0.7% related post: University of Birmingham perspective
And yet another “0.7/GNI” related post (see here) by me, this time on the University of Birmingham‘s main page, the “Perspective” section. It was not really my idea for it to be splashed on this section; I wanted it to … Continue reading
Posted in David Cameron, DFID, International Development, Ivan Lewis, Justine Greening, Posts, Poverty Reduction
Tagged 0.7% Legislation, 0.7%/GNI, 2013 Queen's Speech, Birmingham Brief, Birmingham Perspectives, David Cameron, Department for International Development, DFID, foreign aid, International Development, Ivan Lewis, Jiesheng Li, ODA, Official Development Assistance, Queen's Speech, UK Coalition Government, UK Conservative Party, UK Labour Party, University of Birmingham
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Queen’s speech 2013: The 0.7% worry, no fuss
An extremely short blog post. Based on a…tweet! Ivan Lewis @IvanLewis_MP Leaving 0.7 bill out of Queens speech shows Camerons weakness + lurch to right. + yet another eg of @nick_clegg’s impotence.#brokenpromise Again, I’ve no political affiliation. Nevertheless, I wonder … Continue reading
Posted in DFID, International Development, Ivan Lewis, Justine Greening, Lynne Featherstone, ODI, Official Development Assistance, Poverty Reduction
Tagged 0.7%/GNI, Department for International Development, DFID, foreign aid, International Development, Ivan Lewis, Justine Greening, Lord West, Lord West of Spithead, Lynne Featherstone, ODA, Official Development Assistance, UK Conservative Party, UK Labour Party, UK Liberal Democrats, UK Parliament
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UNGA Debates Global Economic Governance for Development
Originally posted on Post2015.org – what comes after the MDGs?:
The United Nations and Global Economic Governance, a UN General Assembly (UNGA) special event, was held on April 15th, 2013. The debate, including member states and representatives of the…
It’s not really such a great aid mystery
Originally posted on Phil Vernon:
The latest edition of The Spectator carries an opinion piece by Jonathan Foreman entitled The Great Aid Mystery http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/8808521/the-great-aid-mystery/. In a diatribe laced with rather tired tropes, and whose style undermines the argument he makes, Foreman’s main points…
Posted in Alan Duncan, Andrew Mitchell, DFID, International Development, Justine Greening, Lynne Featherstone, MDGs, Official Development Assistance, Posts, Poverty Reduction
Tagged 0.7% Legislation, 0.7%/GNI, Alan Duncan, foreign aid, Jonathan Foreman, Justine Greening, Lynne Featherstone, ODA, Official Development Assistance, The Spectator, UK Conservative Party, UK Development Policy, UK Foreign Policy
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Senior Tory accuses EU of “squandering” Britain’s aid budget.
Originally posted on The Truth is Where?:
By Robert Mendick and Andrew Gilligan 29th September 2012. Find Full Article Here:- A senior Government minister has accused the European Union of squandering Britain’s international aid budget on schemes that often have…
Posted in Alan Duncan, DFID, International Development, Official Development Assistance, Posts, Poverty Reduction
Tagged aid effectiveness, Alan Duncan, Department for International Development, DFID, foreign aid, ODA, Official Development Assistance, Poverty Reduction, UK Conservative Party, UK Foreign Policy
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