…volatile prices and fails to address the causes. G20 Ministers failed to recognise that strategic food reserves or buffer stocks also have a critical role to play in helping poor…
Three top books on Innovation: what lessons for development agencies?
…the expectation that some will fail; make failure survivable, because it will be common; and make sure that you know when you have failed…… distinguishing success from failure, oddly, can…
A global taxation system, as proposed by the IMF
…Carlo Cottarelli explains the reasoning: On the FSC: “One reason the crisis was such a painful mess was that many governments did not have the tools to wind down failing…
What have we learned on getting public services to poor people? What’s next?
Ten years after the World Development Report 2004, the ODI’s Marta Foresti reflects on the past decade and implications for the future Why do so many countries still fail to…
What have we learned from trying to help poor farmers use markets better?
…(M4P). This is because, at its heart, Oxfam programmes are sceptical about getting just any kind of economic growth. We’ve seen that this can leave the poorest behind and fail…
Hell is Good for Growth (or maybe vice versa)
…eventually Protestant – nations stronger protections for individual rights than other nations, creating incentive for individual success.’ – Some religions spark growth by promoting literacy to read holy books (Or…
The Pope just backed a Universal Basic Income and a lot of other stuff
…be relaxed, since these make it difficult for countries on which they have been imposed to provide adequate support to their citizens, and may all nations be put in a…
State of the World report 2011 – innovation but no politics
…year research programme in 25 sub-Saharan African nations. It finds a ‘treasure trove’ of good ideas from nitrogen-fixing trees to better storage systems to rooftop gardening. Conclusion? ‘If each of…
The Year in Africa
…violations. France failed in its effort to stop the conflict. Paul Biya spent a lot of his tenure in Geneva at a luxury $50,000 a night five-star hotel. He, and Switzerland, is now facing…
Once every 20 years the UN focuses on cities, but the wrong people will be there
…actor. The United Nations processes that generate these goals and commitments have tried to allow civil society groups to make their recommendations. So a vast range of groups and alliances…
Starving civilians is an ancient military tactic, but today it’s a war crime in Ukraine, Yemen, Tigray and elsewhere
…1974. In 1977, nations adopted two additional protocols to the Geneva Conventions, each of which included the prohibition of “starvation of civilians as a method of warfare.” Those protocols have been ratified by…
The African Continental Free Trade Area is expanding, but who will benefit?
…the 1980s and 1990s failed to improve economic performance and made no clear contribution to poverty reduction. In fact, such programs weakened the public sector, ravaged social services, increased inequality,…