development Articles

A few months after the coalition agreement, I abandoned ship to go and live somewhere with economic growth and the confidence to welcome foreigners. Living now in Senegal, and working across west Africa, I’ve been made to rethink from a different perspective about...

The next two years will see a really important debate about the global partnership for sustainable development after 2015. There are many calls for this or that area of policy to be important, but personally I hope peacebuilding and freedom from violent conflict are...

As we mark today the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, it is worth reminding the world community about its utmost responsibilities to protect impoverished people from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The DRC has been plagued by instability for...

You’d expect both left and right to agree that the best way for people to escape poverty – in the global south as much as in Britain – is to work their way out. Rhetorically, that’s certainly the case. But look at the detail of what the coalition-led DFID is doing,...