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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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Tricky questions briefing: Food sovereignty

Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 1 September 2012
Campaigns: Food

Download our briefing where we answer common tricky questions such as: What is food sovereignty? Why do we need to change the food system? How do we achieve food sovereignty? […]

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The great nature sale

Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 16 May 2012
Campaigns: Climate

The green economy the UK government and others are pushing at Rio is based on the idea that we are trashing the global commons because we don’t value it properly. […]

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COP17: Durban – a tipping point for the international climate talks

Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 14 September 2011
Campaigns: Climate

The UN climate talks in Durban, in late November 2011, could be our last chance to save the current international climate deal. The first period of the Kyoto Protocol ends […]

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Stop Gambling on Food & Hunger

Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 1 January 2011
Campaigns: Food

Call for Immediate Action on Financial Speculation on Food Commodities – list of signatories

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One size for all: A study of IMF and World Bank Poverty Reduction Strategies

Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 1 September 2005
Campaigns: General

In recent years the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank have adopted new ways of working and new rhetoric on ‘country ownership’ and ‘participation’. At the start of the […]

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