World Humanitarian Day: A Day of Celebration & Commemoration
World Humanitarian Day: A Day of Celebration & Commemoration World Humanitarian Day is a day to salute the soldiers – these ones don’t carry...
Globalisation: The new battleground for women’s rights
States increasingly rely on standardised political and economic regulation to attract new trading and investment streams. Optimists believe that this contact between developed and...
Cross Border Migration and the Challenge to Europe
The mass movement of people across borders remains one of the most intractable challenges of modern international politics. Today, there are unprecedented numbers of...
East Africa’s Entrepreneurs Turning to Crowdfunding for Growth Capital
The World Bank estimates that 60 million jobs need to be created annually to keep employment rates steady and to keep up with population...
A Defense of British Foreign Aid
In recent years, the attitude towards Britain’s vast foreign aid budget has been defined by growing derision and suspicion. In this article, Matthew Peacock...
The European Union & Development
Jonathan Purcell looks at the relationship between the European Union and developing countries, as well as how the EU helps and hinders increased globalisation...
Rio 2016: Trouble in Paradise?
The continued spread of the Zika virus along with political and economic instability has spawned numerous questions about the 2016 Olympic games. Here, Adam...
How to guide to responsible tourism
Achieving the sustainable development goals isn’t all down to states and international institutions, and in this article, Sam Wigglesworth looks at how the general...
How can technology support development?
Recently UNDP’s (United Nations Development Programme) Innovation Facility released its “2015 Year in Review report”. Here, Kris Gulati draws upon the report to look...