Articles

• Basic income paid to the poor can transform lives

   
  18 décembre 2014, par Guy Standing
  Contrary to what sceptics predicted the basic incomes model created more economic activity and work The idea of providing low-income people with money to reduce poverty and insecurity was, until recently, regarded with scepticism in development circles. But that is changing rapidly. The World (...)

• Life on the Ebola frontline : ’Fear is overpowering even the health workers’ | Issac Bayoh

   
  2 décembre 2014, par Isaac Bayoh in Sierra Leone
  In his third update, Isaac Bayoh, a quarantine and awareness worker in rural Sierra Leone, says trust has broken down between the people and the doctors trying to treat them Isaac Bayoh, 25, volunteers as an Ebola quarantine and awareness worker. He is part of a team that isolates the houses of (...)

• Africa’s private sector can drive continent’s development | Calestous Juma

   
  21 novembre 2014, par Calestous Juma
  It is welcome news that African business leaders, spurred by the Ebola crisis, are to assist in tackling the continent’s challenges The decision of African business leaders to join the fight against Ebola brings new assets and capabilities to the task. But it also underscores the limits of the (...)

• Was UK aid watchdog right to accuse DfID of failing to tackle corruption ? | Heather Marquette, Richard Mallett and Mick Moore

   
  5 novembre 2014, par Heather Marquette, Richard Mallett and Mick Moore
  Three academics give their thoughts on the Icai report, which said Britain is failing to address corruption in the countries it gives aid to. But what do you think? In a report published last week, Britain’s aid watchdog, the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (Icai), accused the Department (...)

• We won’t beat the Ebola outbreak without bureaucrats and bureaucracy | Andy Ratcliffe

   
  17 octobre 2014, par Andy Ratcliffe
  The term has a bad name, but the response to Ebola in west Africa is as much a coordination challenge as it is a medical one If I asked you to name the most important things we need in order to tackle the Ebola outbreak, I bet “bureaucrats” would come pretty far down your list. Doctors, nurses, (...)

• The Guardian view of new thinking on global inequality | Editorial

   
  13 octobre 2014, par Editorial
  The old Washington consensus is under mounting challenge. Reducing inequality is morally right and economically necessary It is a moment to savour when the head of the International Monetary Fund warns of a “staggering” rise in inequality. But that’s what Christine Lagarde did last week when she (...)

• The data revolution is coming and it will unlock the corridors of power | Claire Melamed

   
  1er octobre 2014, par Claire Melamed
  Computer geeks and government statisticians are joining a UN initiative to raise the information bar One might not think of statisticians or computer geeks as natural revolutionaries. But that, it turns out, would be unfair, because statisticians and computer geeks are in the vanguard of what (...)

• Whats so bad about development ? | Deborah Doane

   
  1er septembre 2014, par Deborah Doane
  Third world or global south? Pro-poor or pro-wealth? The term development is a minefield that eclipses the real issues The idea of development can still conjure up romantic visions among some about helping to improve the lives of people in the third world through sheer goodwill. Yet we hold on (...)

• Why are indigenous people left out of the sustainable development goals ? | Jonathan Glennie

     
  14 août 2014, par Jonathan Glennie
  Despite promises to leave no one behind, the UN drafting committee has little to say about halting threats to their survival The great danger in compiling a list of priorities for international development, which is what most of the development industry has been preoccupied with for the past (...)

• Ebola epidemic heightened by poor facilities and distrust of healthcare | Matthew Clark

   
  13 août 2014, par Matthew Clark
  Children are dying of preventable diseases all the time in Africa. The nastiness of the Ebola outbreak shouldnt let us forget that In June and July approximately 5,000 women and children in Sierra Leone died of diseases. The vast majority of these deaths were avoidable. For women and children (...)

• Who is going to pay for international development ? | Jonathan Glennie

   
  31 juillet 2014, par Jonathan Glennie
  The world does not need another list of financial problems and solutions. It needs a list of priorities The time is coming for the big ideas in targets such as the sustainable development goals (SDGs) to be honed into politically feasible commitments. Continue (...)

• Why data and metrics are essential for future development goals to be met | Guido Schmidt-Traub

   
  4 juillet 2014, par Guido Schmidt-Traub
  Our report outlines the need for sustainable development goals to be monitored and measured in real time to ensure success The millennium development goals (MDGs) have galvanised governments, civil society and business around ending extreme poverty in all its forms. Though extreme poverty (...)

• Development partnership conference : what did we learn ?

   
  22 avril 2014, par Jonathan Glennie
  Despite concerns about who would turn up, nearly all countries were represented and discussions were interesting and relevant The first High-Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (GPEDC) drew to a conclusion last week in Mexico. Many coming into the (...)