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Humanitarian Cash Transfers
The Free Exchange column in this week’s Economist discusses the work of the High Level Panel…
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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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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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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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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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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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