If you are a geek who is into development, and you are somewhere near Washington DC, you are going to want to come to the International Development Data Barcamp. In fact, even if you are not near DC you may want to come – I’m flying all the way from Read more…
The latest Development Drums podcast on development issues is a discussion with Peter Singer about his new book, The Life You Can Save. Professor Singer argues that we have a duty to give more of our income to help people in extreme poverty. Download Develoment Drums from iTunes or from http://developmentdrums.org/246.
For two years I worked at the Center for Global Development on Michael Kremer’s idea that donor nations should create stronger commercial incentives for drug companies to develop and manufacture drugs and vaccines needed for developing countries by guaranteeing to pay for them if they are produced. On 12th June, Read more…
The UK Department for International Development is to be commended for encouraging some of its staff to maintain a blog to explain to the public what they do. In Bangladesh, Adam Jackson has posted some interesting reflections on his visit to a health programme (in which DFID supports the government) Read more…
My father was a diplomat. When he left his last post in Africa (as High Commissioner to Nigeria) to become High Commissioner to Australia, he sent a message to the then Foreign Secretary reflecting on a career spent mainly in Africa. (These messages from Ambassadors are known in Foreign-Office-speak as Read more…
Forgive the puff for my day job – aidinfo works to make aid more transparent and accountable. Our web guy has done a great job on our website: http://www.aidinfo.org. Also you can subscribe to our RSS feed.
The New York Times describes what happens if women do not have access to safe abortions: Worldwide, there are 19 million unsafe abortions a year, and they kill 70,000 women (accounting for 13 percent of maternal deaths), mostly in poor countries like Tanzania where abortion is illegal, according to the Read more…
In the FT debate on aid, Dambisa Moyo, author of Dead Aid, seems to be adjusting her position: To focus on the five-year aid-reduction example that my book offered as an illustration of an exit strategy deliberately misses the point, which is that Africa desperately needs to wean off aid. Read more…
Cashewman quotes a friend: “You can give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. You can teach a man to fish and he’ll eat for a lifetime. But did you ever ask him if he wanted a fucking fish in the first place? And it’s not as Read more…
David Cameron is right to call for transparency in public spending.