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Owen Barder

January 8, 2016

Strings attached

The Economist considers the implications of the UK’s new aid strategy.
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January 5, 2016

Fat cats

By the end of today, the average Chief Executive of a FTSE 100 company will have been…
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October 27, 2015

Vague about the Constitution

There was nothing unconstitutional about yesterday’s decision by the House of Lords.
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October 23, 2015

XKCD on World Polio Day

XKCD teases the innovation fetish in international development.
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October 6, 2015

We are the first generation in human history … again

Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank, says that the world is moving closer to…
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September 27, 2015

Humanitarian Cash Transfers

The Free Exchange column in this week’s Economist discusses the work of the High Level Panel…
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September 25, 2015

Global goals can deliver 2C and new development finance – here’s how

How emissions trading can both tackle climate change and generate development finance. (This article by Alex…
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September 17, 2015

Is truth stranger than fiction? [podcast]

The latest Development Drums features Todd Moss, a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development…
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September 17, 2015

Transforming Humanitarian Aid with Cash Transfers: High Level Panel Report

A High Level Panel on Humanitarian Cash Transfers, which I chaired, has concluded that much more…
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September 9, 2015

Innovative financing for development: as if social returns, incentives, and value for money really mattered

There is an article by Theo Talbot and me in the latest edition of ECDPM’s Great…
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