Framing the argument is key to maintaining support for foreign aid
Reversing the slide in support for international aid is critical to commitments being met; everyone engaged in the sector can play a part in making that happen.
Reversing the slide in support for international aid is critical to commitments being met; everyone engaged in the sector can play a part in making that happen.
The Global Poverty Project’s Sam Bacon takes apart today’s House of Lords report which called for the scrapping of the 0.7 per cent GNI aid target.
The real Andrew Mitchell tax scandal is his department’s failure to stand up to George Osborne over his watering down of tax haven legislation.
Peter Goldstein writes about the findings of a new survey of UK citizens’ attitudes to overseas aid and international development.
Richard Serunjogi of the Labour Campaign for International Development lays out the stark consequences of any failure to meet the 0.7 per cent aid target.
Sam Bacon, of the Global Poverty Project, urges the chancellor to commit to the 0.7 per cent target of UK GNI to be spent on international development.
Though piracy, security and terror topped the agenda at the conference on Somalia, we mustn’t let it’s less high-profile development needs slip under the radar.
International development secretary Andrew Mitchell has once again delayed enshrining the 0.7 per cent target in law.
Mann Virdee reports from Bill Gates’s speech at the LSE this week.
Gareth Thomas MP argues that we need to start working towards a replacement for the millennium development goals now.