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Too much of a good thing?
Surprisingly many people prefer to receive this blog by email than to visit the website or…
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Robin Hood Tax revisited
Development activists should not try to bypass the systems of democratic control of spending priorities, nor…
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How to spend $1m reducing climate change
We would get three or four times as much bang for our buck – in terms…
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The BBC sexed up a report about aid to Ethiopia
The BBC has today apologised for giving the false impression that a substantial part of aid given…
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Incentives, results and bureaucracy in aid
If better measurement of results is used by aid agencies to simplify the way they manage…
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UK spending plans protect development spending
The UK coalition government yesterday announced its spending plans for the next four financial years (to…
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Development Drums podcast: Famine & Foreigners
Peter Gill talks on the latest Development Drums podcast about his new book, Famine and Foreigners: Ethiopia…
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Fifty years since the death of Sylvia Pankhurst, Ethiopians pay tribute
There was a memorial service this morning for Sylvia Pankhurst at the Holy Trinity cathedral (or…