Tag Archives: Poverty

A Tale of two live videos…

Posted on Feb 5, 2013 by ipeanddevelopment

Across the month of November (or December, yes this entry is very late I watched two live videos, one of a two day conference, and one of a short panel consisting of two prominent world “stars”. More specifically, they were … Continue reading →

Posted in ODI, Official Development Assistance, Overseas Development Institute, Posts, Poverty Reduction, World Bank | Tagged Andrew Rogerson, Bono, CAPE, CAPE2012, Centre for And and Public Exependiture, China, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, Ed Hedger, Edward Hedger, IDA, IDA Replenishment, IDA Replenishment Rounds, International Development, International Political Economy, IPE, Jim Yong Kim, Jonathan Glennie, Latin America, ODI, ONE, Open Data, Overseas Development Institute, Owen Barder, Poverty, Poverty Reduction, South-South Cooperation, World Bank | Leave a comment

So you want to start another organisation to combat poverty? A possible case of too many cooks spoiling the broth

Posted on Oct 19, 2012 by ipeanddevelopment

“You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one” so wrote John Lennon is his extremely well known song Imagine. Many people individually or collectively imagine they can creating something, even though they know others have already done … Continue reading →

Posted in Campaigning, DFID, Economic Thought, Human Development, Human Development Reports, International Development, MDGs, Millennium Development Goals, ODI, Overseas Development Institute, Poverty Reduction, UNDP, United Nations Development Programme, World Bank | Tagged $1/day, Amartya Sen, Center for Global Development, CGD, CGDev, Civil Society Organisation, CSO, Department for International Development, DFID, DIE, Ducan Green, gender inequality, Gender Inequality Index, German Development Institute, Global Development, GRIPS, HDI, Human Development, Human Development Index, Human Development Report Office, Human Development Reports, IDS, IIED, Imagine, Inequality Adjusted HDI, Institute for Development Studies, International Development, International Institute for Environment and Development, John Lennon, Joseph Stiglitz, Lawrence Haddad, Mahbub ul Haq, MPHI, Multidimensional Poverty Index, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, NGO, NGOs, Non-Governmental Organisation, ODI, OPHI, Overseas Development Institute, Owen Barder, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, Poverty, Poverty Reduction, Sabina Alkire, UNDP, UNDP HDRO, United Nation Development Programme, World Bank, World Bank Group | Leave a comment

Re-post from The Birmingham Brief: A critical assessment of the 2011 UK multilateral and bilateral aid reviews

Posted on Apr 21, 2011 by ipeanddevelopment

Here ishow my post that appearred on Birmingham University’s Birmingham Brief–an articled titled “A critical assessment of the 2011 UK multilateral and bilateral aid reviews”
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Posted in Andrew Mitchell, DFID, Harriet Harman, IDA, International Development, Official Development Assistance, Posts, Poverty Reduction, Rushanara Ali | Tagged Bilateral Aid Review, Birmingham Brief, Coalition Government, Department for International Development, DFID, foreign aid, HERR, Humanitarian Aid, Humanitarian Emergency Response Review, International Organisations, International Political Economy, IPE, Jiesheng Li, LDCs, Multilateral Aid Review, ODA, Official Development Assistance, Poverty, Poverty Reduction, principal-agent theory, UK Conservative Party, UK Labour Party, UK Liberal Democrats, United Kingdom, University of Birmingham, Value for Money | Leave a comment

Shadowing DFID: Mitchell vs Harman

Posted on Mar 8, 2011 by ipeanddevelopment

It’s one thing unique and wonderful that after 1997 all three major British political parties supported the need to focus on International Development and increase aid with a focus not on tying aid to British commercial interests but that of poverty reduction…but the Shadow Minister and his/her team must come up with a viable development -centred policy, not a political centred development policy Continue reading →

Posted in Andrew Mitchell, DFID, Harriet Harman, International Development, Official Development Assistance, Posts, Poverty Reduction | Tagged 0.7%/GNI, Andrew Mitchell, Bilateral Aid Review, Cash on Delivery, Center for Global Development, Department for International Development, DFID, foreign aid, Hansard, Harriet Harman, International Development, Labour Campaign for International Development, Multilateral Aid Review, ODA, Official Development Assistance, One World Conservatism, Overseas Development Institute, Paul Collier, Poverty, Poverty Reduction, Rushanara Ali, Shadow Front Bench, UK Conservative Party, UK Labour Party, UK Liberal Democrats, UK Parliament, UN Women, UNIFEM, United Nations Development Fund for Women | 4 Comments

0.7%? 0.07%? 7%? The lure and wonder over how much aid countries should give

Posted on Feb 27, 2011 by ipeanddevelopment

But you can give 0.7, or 0.07 or 7% of your income (as some super rich countries should give), but if you do so along with a fixed set of norms that has been detrimental to the recipient–and you–then is is useless to give the money in the first place… Continue reading →

Posted in Campaigning, DFID, Harriet Harman, IMF, International Development, MCA, MCC, Millennium Development Goals, ODI, Official Development Assistance, Posts, Poverty Reduction, USAID, World Bank | Tagged 0.7%/GNI, aid effectiveness, aid reform, bilateral aid, Center for Global Development, Department for International Development, DFID, Doha Declaration for Financing for Development, donors, Ed Miliband, foreign aid, Harriet Harman, Harrod-Domar Model, IMF, International Monetary Fund, International Organisations, Jan Tinbergen, MDGs, Michael Clemens, Millennium Challenge Account, Millennium Challenge Cooperation, Millennium Development Goals, Monterrey Consensus, neoliberalism, ODI, OECD, Official Development Assistance, Overseas Development Institute, Pearson Commission, Poverty, Poverty Reduction, Shadow Front Bench, Todd Moss, UK Labour Party, United Nations, United States, US, US aid policy, USAID, Washington Consensus, World Bank, World Council of Churches | 12 Comments

The unknown helper in development: the case of Singapore

Posted on Jan 31, 2011 by ipeanddevelopment

International donors especially the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development-Donor Assistance Committee (OECD-DAC) have always made the news or even the front line news over their aid activities or their aid disbursements to International Organisations (IOs). Non OECD-DAC members like … Continue reading →

Posted in Ha-Joon Chang, International Development, Joseph Stiglitz, Poverty Reduction, World Bank | Tagged Asian Tigers, East Asian Miracle, foreign aid, International Development, International Development Association, ODA, Official Development Assistance, Poverty, Poverty Reduction, Singapore, Singapore Cooperation Programme | 2 Comments

Rushanara Ali: Her weak performance so far…

Posted on Dec 30, 2010 by ipeanddevelopment

This is not meant to be an attack on an individual bu more a critical review of her. Yes it’s a her. I’m talking about Rushanara Ali MP, appointed as the junior Shadow Secretary of State for International Development (thus … Continue reading →

Posted in DFID, International Development, Poverty Reduction | Tagged Department for International Development, DFID, Harriet Harman, International Development, Mark Lazarowicz, Poverty, Poverty Reduction, Rushanara Ali, Shadow Front Bench, UK Labour Party | 5 Comments

A Question on the Criticism of Microfinance

Posted on Dec 27, 2010 by ipeanddevelopment

A very short entry here on a very extensive subject in the field of development—Microfinance. Continue reading →

Posted in Ha-Joon Chang, International Development, Posts, Poverty Reduction | Tagged Grameen Bank, Ha-Joon Chang, Microfinance, Milford Bateman, Muhammad Yunus, neoliberalism, Poverty, Poverty Reduction | Leave a comment

Links for Thought 4

Posted on Nov 22, 2010 by ipeanddevelopment

Links for Thought 4 Continue reading →

Posted in Ha-Joon Chang, IMF, International Development, International Political Economy, IPE, Posts, Poverty Reduction | Tagged aid effectiveness, Catherine Weaver, China, Climate Change, Department for International Development, DFID, economics, Financial Crisis, financial economics, foreign aid, Ha-Joon Chang, IMF, International Development, International Monetary Fund, International Organisations, International Political Economy, IPE, Liesel Matthews, Liesel Pritzker, Microfinance, Multilateral Organisations, NGO, Non-Governmental Organisation, ODI, Opportunity International, Overseas Development Institute, Poverty, Poverty Reduction, Rajiv Shah, United States Agency for International Development, US aid policy, USAID, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity | Leave a comment

Why I still believe in the MDGs

Posted on Sep 19, 2010 by ipeanddevelopment

With world leaders and officials meeting for yet another summit on the Millennium Development Goals, this post is extremely relevant. Continue reading →

Posted in Ha-Joon Chang, International Development, MDGs | Tagged Center for Global Development, David Hulme, donors, Ha-Joon Chang, International Development, International Political Economy, IPE, Jan Vandermoortele, MDGs, Millennium Development Goals, Millennium Summit, Poverty, Poverty Reduction, Richard Jolly, Todd Moss, UN, United Nations, William Easterly | 7 Comments