By Joshua Kenyon The Mexico City Policy, more commonly known as the Global Gag Rule, is America’s policy of refusing to fund international non-governmental...
By Grace Avila Casanova For decades, Official Development Assistance (ODA) agencies have been operating under a post-World War II “aid” narrative, an often patronising...
By Andrew Fryer On the 11th March 2020, coronavirus or COVID-19 was officially characterised as a pandemic by the Director-General of the World Health...
Widespread concerns about dodgy and unscrupulous overseas aid charities not sending donations where they’re supposed to have led some people to instead express a...
Concerns about overpopulation, or the ‘population explosion’ as it’s sometimes called, are widespread at the moment. The logic surrounding these concerns is understandable –...
Given the significant amount of coverage which the UK foreign aid budget receives in the press, in political discussion, and in charities’ external communications,...
International Development Secretary Priti Patel was forced to resign on 9th November. Has Theresa May made the right choice appointing Penny Mordaunt to replace...
Zambia as a democracy often attracts minimal attention from the development sphere, because it is not necessarily successful as a democracy but is also...
Established in 1961 by John F. Kennedy, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was designed to advance America’s interests while fulfilling a...