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The Privatisation of UK aid

Type: Reports
Date: 31 March 2016
Campaigns: Aid

After decades of work by campaigners and activists, in 2015 the UK enshrined in law a commitment to spend 0.7% of its national income on international aid to tackle poverty around the […]

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Gated Development – is the Gates Foundation always a force for good?

Type: Reports
Date: 20 January 2016
Campaigns: Aid

Every January, Bill Gates sets out his vision for a better world and the role the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation can play in achieving this in an annual letter […]

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The UK’s support of the growth of private education through its development aid

Type: Reports
Date: 15 October 2015
Campaigns: Aid

Private actors are playing an increasing role in education in a number of countries worldwide andin particular in developing countries. The growth of private schools, including the emergence and rapid […]

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Irresponsible Investment – Agrica’s broken development model in Tanzania

Type: Reports
Date: 17 June 2015
Campaigns: Aid

Kilombero Plantations Ltd (KPL) is a 5,818 hectare rice plantation located in the heart of the fertile Kilombero Valley, Tanzania. In addition to developing a large-scale rice farm, KPL works […]

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The poor are getting richer, and other dangerous delusions

Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 19 January 2015
Campaigns: Aid

In January ‘the great and the good’ meet in Davos, Switzerland to discuss how the world is changing, and how corporate executives and senior politicians should respond to these changes. […]

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Profits from poverty: How big business is cashing in on aid

Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 1 October 2012
Campaigns: Aid

Over the past decade, the Department for International Development (DfID) has increasingly been putting the culture and interests of the private sector at the heart of its work. Aid is being […]

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Zambia: Condemned to debt

Type: Reports
Date: 5 April 2004
Campaigns: Aid

How the IMF and World Bank have undermined development

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Treacherous conditions

Type: Reports
Date: 18 May 2003
Campaigns: Aid

How IMF and World Bank policies tied to debt relief are undermining development

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States of Unrest III

Type: Reports
Date: 1 April 2003
Campaigns: Aid

This report documents protests in developing countries in 2002. The first States of Unrest report was released in September 2000. It charted protests between the WTO Ministerial in Seattle, in […]

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States of Unrest II

Type: Reports
Date: 1 April 2002
Campaigns: Aid

This report documents protests in developing countries in 2001. The first States of Unrest report was released in September 2000. It charted protests between the WTO Ministerial in Seattle, in […]

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