Category: Aid

Will the detaining of Zambia’s opposition leader put Zambia at risk of losing development funding?

Zambia as a democracy often attracts minimal attention from the development sphere, because it is not necessarily successful as a democracy but is also...

USAID: An Institution Fighting for Survival

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...

General Election 2017: Where does each party stand on development spending?

With less than 24 hours before the polls open for the UK General Election, Ed Matthews highlights the pledges on overseas aid made by...

The Role of Aid Theft in Africa: A Development Question

Across Africa more than a trillion of dollars of aid and investment remains unaccounted for due to corruption and theft, leaving doubts about the...

The impossible task: building popular support for immigration

Brexit has been built on the promise of immigration control. But as Theresa May prepares to trigger Article 50, could she be making a...

DiA Interview | Hilary Benn

Ex-Secretary of State for International Development and current Chair of the Exiting the European Union Select Committee Hilary Benn talks to Luke Humphrey

Bilateral versus Multilateral Aid

In this article Megan Kilmister discusses bilateral and multilateral aid, looking at the differences between the two, and the arguments for and against these...

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Calais: aid in the digital age

With the closure of the Calais refugee camp imminent, Megan Kilmister writes about an innovative campaign helping bring aid into the digital age by...

The Sustainable Development Goals: The optimists, the sceptics, and the challenges ahead.

Similar to the Millennium Development Goals, the new Sustainable Development Goals have brought about lots of debate and vastly different opinions. The international development...

Afghanistan after 14 years of Foreign Aid: sustained developments or continued challenges?

Ashraf Ghani, the President of Afghanistan once said, “Economics taught in most of the elite universities are practically useless in my context. My country...

The Baha’I community perseveres under an oppressive Iranian government.

Recently media coverage has highlighted the oppression of the Baha’I community under the Iranian government. Carlos Aguilar analyses this and discusses how the minority...

Development or Underdevelopment: political implications and the wrong focus

Development scholarship, despite covering several disciplines, lacks diversity. Debates about what we mean by development, the way we measure it and the terms we...

Why the next election will determine the future of the USA in world politics

Two weeks ago the Republican Party hosted its second Presidential candidate Debate at the Regan Presidential Library. Whilst the debate touched on many important...

The Youth Summit: DFID assert youths will “make or break” the success of the SDGs

On September 12, London saw thousands of protestors marching towards Parliament over the refugee crisis, demanding Mr. Cameron to open UK borders on the...

More Than Good Intentions by Karlan and Appel: Book Review

Kris Gulati reviews Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel’s book “More Than Good Intentions”. He argues that the argument the book proposes has a lot...

Gender (inequality) and (under)Development

Severe criticism of the Washington consensus ushered the development of the post-Washington consensus. Despite being narrated as a paradigm shift in development policy, the...

The role of the health community in the European refugee crisis

Adam Tiliouine is a volunteer for global health charity Medact, and involved in organising ‘Health Through Peace’, a two-day conference in November of this...

Conscious consumerism: does buying ever count as aid?

TOMS shoes have come under intense scrutiny. At face value it is a product that is sold and helps to raise funds for its...

Does Democracy Deliver Development?

In the mountains of Afghanistan, American capitalism won its jihad against Soviet communism. Moscow’s tentacles could no longer cling onto those imprisoned behind the...

The Make Poverty History Campaign- Did It Create a Generation of Global Citizens?

You may remember the Make Poverty History campaign largely as a result of the iconic white band, a representation of the Global Call to...

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