Showing posts with label aid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label aid. Show all posts
Thursday, 28 February 2019

David Lammy is right about Africa (but wrong to make it about skin colour)

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David Lammy is the worst sort of politician - lots of sound and fury, avalanches of slogans pretending to be wisdom, and a complete absense ...
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Thursday, 20 February 2014

A glimpse of another Africa

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Nairobi You're all familiar with the Oxfam picture of Africa . The starving children, the smiling farmers kept from death's door...
Friday, 8 November 2013

Helping Africa (well sort of...)

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**** This is brilliant - and so true: ....
Saturday, 20 April 2013

Real international aid...

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**** We are supposed to pat ourselves on the back because we're handing over £11 billion or thereabouts in aid to needy countries. Muc...
Monday, 28 January 2013

Yep, the Guardian does want poor people to stay poor.

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**** As I observed the other day after a piece of nonsense about Peru and asparagus, the Guardian really does think that poor folk in the ...
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Saturday, 26 January 2013

Hunger will disappear IF...we stop subsidising poverty and promote free trade

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**** This year, many of the world’s most powerful leaders will meet in the UK. They must change the future for millions of people wh...
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Saturday, 30 June 2012

Millennium Villages - the wrong kind of aid?

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**** I have an abiding interest is the great trade or aid debate. I've always - since my days studying development economics thirty ye...
Sunday, 1 April 2012

Evidence that bilateral aid is wasteful?

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*** Not that it's a surprise : Documents recently made public by the UK government reveal the cost of poverty reduction in the Mill...
Thursday, 6 October 2011

What aid might teach us about quantitative easing

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**** In times past we used to think that one effect of international aid was to act as an economic stimulus. And, in orthodox economics,...
Tuesday, 14 June 2011

Why we should question the value of bilateral aid

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I’ve always believed in the value of international aid, that it is right that wealthy nations should assist less wealthy countries. I abso...
Sunday, 20 June 2010

Banks, budgets and the Archbishop calling for unethical behaviour

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**** Every now and then national newspapers – in what I guess is some form of social service – hand over prominent columns to senior churchm...
Tuesday, 15 June 2010

Thoughts on why bilateral aid doesn't work

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**** I have always tried to avoid writing about international aid – not because it’s a subject without importance but because, frankly, my...