development Articles

Over Labour’s 13 years in office, Britain’s reputation on international development was transformed. Instead of cutting aid, as our predecessors had done, we tripled it. Instead of subsidising British firms with it, we passed landmark legislation to make it illegal to...

Last weekend, in the midst of the worst flooding the UK has seen in 60 years, Ed Miliband described the UK as ‘sleepwalking into a national security crisis on climate change’. He argued that as a result of political divisions in Westminster over whether or not to...

Speaking at the London Stock Exchange last week, international development secretary Justine Greening talked of the ‘radical journey’ she wanted to take her department and the broader development agenda on. As we expect from a Tory cabinet minister’s speech, it was...

HIV and AIDS has been the major health threat of the last few decades, affecting around 75 million people since the start of the epidemic and continuing to affect around 35.3 million people today. For the most part the global response has been a success story. Eight...