Foreign Aid FAQs – #9 “They’re poor because they’re lazy”
A common attitude nowadays is that people are rich because they work hard and deserve to be wealthy, whereas people are poor because they...
Foreign Aid FAQs – #8 “Why has nothing been achieved?”
The fight to eradicate global poverty has been going on for decades. Yet despite all the money that has been donated and all the...
GDP and its usefulness as a developmental indicator
Globally, whenever policy-makers promise to deliver “growth”, they are often exclusively referring to Gross Domestic Product. But is this really the best way to...
Tax avoidance and International Development: An Elephant in the Room
Following the Panama Papers, Aaron Cohen-Gold examines the need to put international tax avoidance at the heart of the development agenda. The Panama...
Does Globalisation increase or decrease inequality, or neither?
Globalisation has changed the world dramatically. Whether this is for the good or the bad is highly contested. Mainstream sources continually remain defiant on...
Affirmative Action in India: Is backward the new forward?
Sarita Devi (name changed) 38, seems unhappy with her daughter Sonam’s board result – a public examination occurring at the end of the 10th...
Monopolising Necessities: Bolivia and Water
The contemporary proliferation of neo-liberal policies on a global scale has accentuated issues of unequal access to our fundamental human necessities. Although there should...
A New Big Society: social solidarity without growth?
Mitigating climate change is often seen to be at odds with economic growth. This is confirmed by the fact that rapidly developing countries hold...
Ebola: ‘Africa’s problem’
How does the developed world respond to crises in the developing world? Sabrina Marsh explores the current Ebola outbreak in light of inequality, international aid...