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Give us the courage to change the things we can – the serenity prayer for development
Let’s have the serenity to accept the things we cannot change; but give us the courage…
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What Can International Development Learn From Britain’s Olympic Team?
Getting on the bandwagon of identifying lessons from Team GB’s relative success at the 2016 Olympic…
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Whose aid is most effective? Are generous donors less effective?
The most effective aid donor in the world is probably not who you think it is.
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Do middle-income countries really get more aid than low-income countries?
Hans Rosling, using ODI data, said that middle income countries get three times as much aid…
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Aid transparency: are we nearly there?
There is good news and bad news in the 2016 Aid Transparency Index, which is published…
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Why taxing global companies is hard
Should the profits on scotch whisky be taxed in Scotland, where it is made, or China…
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Will we be the first generation to eradicate malaria?
This isn’t the first time that Bill Gates and the UK government have announced a $3bn plan…
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Price discrimination and welfare costs
There is nothing inherently wrong with price discrimination. But some of the mechanisms firms use to…
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When the US Secretary of State reads your blog posts
One of my blog posts (written with Kim Elliott) ended up on Hillary Clinton’s desk according…
