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POLICY PAPERS
December 14, 2023
DFID’s growing budget, influence, capability, focus, and political support from 2003 to 2010 allowed it, in these years, to make a substantial contribution towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals. These years also saw the emergence of a cross-party political consensus that the UK should ...
Blog Post
December 08, 2023
Every once in a while, a moment acts to define an era, marking the precise second that the tides have shifted. Like the first scene of Pulp Fiction, on its release in 1994: at the moment Miserlou starts playing, that was it: this was what every film was going to be like for the next 10 years. The op...
Blog Post
December 07, 2023
A couple of weeks ago, the UK’s Minister for International Development, Andrew Mitchell, presented the first new White Paper on International Development for almost fifteen years to Parliament. Its release has prompted much comment. My own opinion leans towards measured praise. But so far, none of t...
Blog Post
December 01, 2023
What a week, eh. In the UK, the Covid inquiry is kicking into overdrive, with Matt Hancock in this week and Boris Johnson next week, leaving observers with the difficult task of distinguishing fact from… um… well, the other thing (at least, according to the other witnesses to the inquiry, and their...
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November 20, 2023
In this edition of the Future of Development series, Seema Jayachandran and Rohini Somanathan will join host Ranil Dissanayake to discuss environmental externalities and the future of development. They will focus on how governments (and others) can address the environmental costs of widespread and d...