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Here’s a simple way to help refugees: give them cash
Rather than giving refugees food, shelter, water and medical care, it is often better to give…
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On World Humanitarian Day: Could We Do Better with Cash?
World Humanitarian Day is an opportunity to celebrate the courage of humanitarian workers, but also to…
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Addis: A Good First Step, but a Terrible Last Word, for 2015
The Financing for Development Conference in July 2015 in Addis Ababa was never going to solve all the…
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What to expect from the Addis Ababa Financing for Development conference
This article appeared in The Guardian Development Professionals Network on Friday 10 July, 2015. Development economist Owen…
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“we can be the first generation that ends poverty…”
Ban Ki-Moon says that we can be the first generation that ends poverty. An update of the…
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Financing for development – where the treasure is buried
We won’t get development from global and domestic “tax and spend” alone. We should be focusing more…
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Podcasts are “back” – so what are you listening to?
Podcasts are back in fashion – here is why, and a list of what I am…
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Let’s Dump Technology Transfer from the Addis Agenda
Let’s dump technology transfer from the Addis declaration and substitute technology development and sharing — they…
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How should donors work with the private sector?
We are enthusiastic about the growing interest in supporting private investment in developing countries, but it…
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Can aid agencies help systems fix themselves?
If economic development is a property of a complex adaptive system then what, if anything, can development…
