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Why pro-market solutions to poverty don’t always work

21 Nov 2012 3 minute read

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Why pro-market solutions to poverty don’t always work

Deborah Doane argues that we must end the ‘private good, public bad’ mentality in international development...

The Philippines' development should be towards equality

9 Nov 2012 3 minute read

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The Philippines' development should be towards equality

Jessica Cantos on the expiration of the Millennium Development Goals and the need to put people before...

How hacktivism fights corruption

15 Oct 2012 2 minute read

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How hacktivism fights corruption

Computer programmers and campaigners have teamed up to ‘hack’ for justice, reports Transparency International’s Milena...

Is it curtains for Fair Trade?

12 Sep 2012 4 minute read

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Is it curtains for Fair Trade?

With corporates swarming all over the trade justice brand, David Ransom says Fair Trade must stick to its...

17 Aug 2012 5 minute read

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Remembering the humanitarians

Ashley Jackson explains how the agendas of Western governments have turned relief work into a lethal...

Hunger and the 0.7% aid debate

14 May 2012 3 minute read

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Hunger and the 0.7% aid debate

Poor people need aid but it needs to be targeted and the structures that perpetuate global inequality must also be tackled,...

1 May 2012 7 minute read

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Should India still receive foreign aid?

NGO director Jamal Kidwai and activist and writer Praful Bidwai go head-to-head - read their arguments and join the...

1 Apr 2012 7 minute read

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Should donor nations give aid to countries with poor human rights records?

Human rights lawyer Errol Mendes and aid campaigner Jonathan Glennie go head-to-head - read their arguments and join...

1 Apr 2012 9 minute read

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The flip side to Bill Gates' charity billions

Microsoft's former CEO has made massive donations to global health programmes but an investigation by Andrew Bowman...

1 Mar 2012 3 minute read

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Letter from Botswana: ET is not an alien

New columnist Lauri Kubuitsile introduces dry and dusty Mahalapye- a town that has stolen her heart.

How do you solve a problem like Somalia?

21 Feb 2012 4 minute read

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How do you solve a problem like Somalia?

If international leaders are to help Somalia, they first need to acknowledge their role in its tragedy, say Mark...

Podcast: Mark Schuller on Haiti after the earthquake

3 Jan 2012 1 minute read

This article is almost 12 years old.

Podcast: Mark Schuller on Haiti after the earthquake

Mark Schuller, an expert on the relief effort after Haiti's 2010 earthquake, talks about the positive and...

1 Jan 2012 12 minute read

This article is almost 12 years old.

Haiti two years on: beyond relief, beyond belief

Haiti is not just recovering from the
earthquake but from the political and
economic interventions of recent...

1 Jan 2012 7 minute read

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Haiti: where did all the money go?

More than $10 billion was raised worldwide for Haiti after the earthquake. But, two years on, what have NGOs done with the...

Podcast: Sally Healy on the East Africa famine

15 Nov 2011 1 minute read

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Podcast: Sally Healy on the East Africa famine

Sally Healy, Associate Fellow of the African Programme at Chatham House, discusses the politicization...

Is the world's population really a timebomb?

31 Oct 2011 2 minute read

This article is almost 12 years old.

Is the world's population really a timebomb?

The UN estimates there will be seven billion of us on this planet by the end of October. But talk of a 'population explosion'...

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