Blogs
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 […]
Read moreGated 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 […]
Read moreThe 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 […]
Read moreIrresponsible 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 […]
Read moreThe 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. […]
Read moreProfits 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 […]
Read moreZambia: Condemned to debt
Type: Reports
Date: 5 April 2004
Campaigns: Aid
How the IMF and World Bank have undermined development
Read moreTreacherous conditions
Type: Reports
Date: 18 May 2003
Campaigns: Aid
How IMF and World Bank policies tied to debt relief are undermining development
Read moreStates 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 […]
Read moreStates 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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