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International development

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    In brief: UK aid to Iraq

    Thursday, 19 March, 2015

    Figures for UK humanitarian aid to Iraq

    • Research Briefing
    • International development
    • Middle East
  • Research Briefing

    International Women’s Day 2015: Background and statistics

    Tuesday, 03 March, 2015

    What are the trends for women's equality in the UK and across the globe? This document provides background statistics for International Women's Day 2015, examining international comparisons and UK-specific data.

    • Research Briefing
    • Equality
    • Institutions
    • International development
    • Parliament
  • Research Briefing

    Ethiopia: DFID ends support for the Promotion of Basic Services Programme

    Monday, 02 March, 2015

    On 26 February 2015, the Department for International Development (DFID) announced that it was reconfiguring important elements of its bilateral aid programme with Ethiopia. A key element of this reconfiguration is ending its support for the ‘Promotion of Basic Services Programme’ (PBS), a large multi-donor programme that also receives support from the World Bank and the African Development Bank. DFID’s announcement is striking in that it makes no reference to the controversy that has surrounded the PBS in recent years. Some have implicated it in the Ethiopian Government's 'villagisation programme', which has allegedly involved forced resettlement and human rights abuses. This briefing seeks to place DFID’s announcement in context.

    • Research Briefing
    • Africa
    • Institutions
    • International development
  • Research Briefing

    Nigeria 2015: analysis of election issues and future prospects

    Monday, 19 January, 2015

    This paper looks at the multiple challenges facing Nigeria as it prepares for presidential and legislative elections on 14 February 2015. These elections will take place amidst an atmosphere of even greater crisis and uncertainty than usual. Boko Haram’s insurgency in the north of the country continues unabated. There are fears that the country might break up if the election aftermath is poorly handled. However, some observers remain remarkably hopeful about Nigeria’s future, predicting that its enormous economic potential is on the verge of being realised at last.

    • Research Briefing
    • Africa
    • Economy
    • Elections
    • Institutions
    • International development
    • International trade
    • Security
  • Research Briefing

    International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill 2014-15: progress of the bill

    Wednesday, 14 January, 2015

    This note looks at the debates on the International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill 2014-15 since the bill’s introduction. In committee, the bill was amended, changing the requirements about the scrutiny of aid spending. At third reading, the bill was passed by the House of Commons by 146 votes to five.

    • Research Briefing
    • International development
  • Research Briefing

    Viral emails protesting about government spending on international aid

    Monday, 29 December, 2014

    This note analyses statistics contained in a viral email on aid spending, which is often headed 'Something to think about'.

    • Research Briefing
    • International development
  • Research Briefing

    International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill [Bill 14 of 2014-15]

    Wednesday, 10 September, 2014

    The International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill 2014-15 would put the 0.7% aid target in legislation and would create a new body to carry out independent evaluation of aid spending.

    • Research Briefing
    • International development
  • Research Briefing

    The post-2015 development goals

    Wednesday, 02 July, 2014

    This Note explores what kind of framework might replace the Millennium Development Goals upon their expiry in 2015. It assesses reaction to the ‘zero draft’ of 17 new goals published by the Open Working Group in June 2014.

    • Research Briefing
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • International development
    • International organisations
  • Research Briefing

    The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition

    Tuesday, 20 May, 2014

    US President Obama launched the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition at the May 2012 G8 summit at Camp David. It aims to address years of underinvestment in agriculture, and to meet the financing gap for global food security, in order to help pull 50 million people out of chronic poverty over 10 years. Critics of the New Alliance question whether it will help poor farmers. and charge that the New Alliance represents a “new form of colonialism”. The UK Department for International Development (DFID) supports the scheme and has committed £600 million to it.

    • Research Briefing
    • Africa
    • Environment
    • International development
  • Insight

    UK hits the 0.7% aid target

    Wednesday, 02 April, 2014

    • Insight
    • International development
  • Insight

    Britain’s role in UN peacekeeping operations

    Tuesday, 01 April, 2014

    • Insight
    • International development
  • Research Briefing

    Democratic Republic of Congo: a gathering momentum towards peace?

    Thursday, 20 March, 2014

    The Special Representative of UN Secretary-General on Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Martin Kohler – who is also the head of the UN mission, MONUSCO – has claimed that there is a “new momentum” behind efforts to stabilise the country. This note briefly surveys the DRC's current trajectory.

    • Research Briefing
    • Africa
    • Institutions
    • International development
    • International organisations
  • Research Briefing

    The Central African Republic: a primer on the current crisis

    Wednesday, 19 February, 2014

    President Francois Bozize was overthrown in March 2013 by a rebel coalition called Seleka, which then installed its leader, Michael Djotodia, as the new president. However, the country remained in turmoil and ‘self-defence groups’ opposed to Seleka, called Anti-Balaka, took up arms. By late 2013, senior UN officials were warning the conflict had turned into one between the Muslim minority and the Christian majority. They said there was a real danger of genocide. While not disputing the seriousness of the crisis, many experts caution against over-simplified narratives of ‘Christian versus Muslim’ and question claims of possible genocide. Despite the arrival of French and African peacekeepers and the resignation of Michael Djotodia - recently replaced by an interim president, Catherine Samba-Panza, who heads an transitional government - violence continues in many parts of the country, with some now fearing de facto partition.

    • Research Briefing
    • Africa
    • Institutions
    • International development
    • International law
  • Research Briefing

    Nigeria: MINT-ed?

    Thursday, 09 January, 2014

    Jim O’Neill, the economist who first coined the term ‘BRICS’ in 2001, has announced that Nigeria (along with Mexico, Indonesia and Turkey [acronym: MINT) could become one of the next emerging ‘economic giants’. Yet there remain grounds for wondering whether Mr O’Neill’s view is overly rose-tinted. In sharp contrast to him, some recent observers have been talking instead of possible ‘revolution’ or the ‘disintegration’ of Nigeria. Perhaps, like pre-1914 Russia, it is precariously teetering between all three options.

    • Research Briefing
    • Africa
    • Economy
    • Institutions
    • International development
    • Security
  • Research Briefing

    UK overseas aid expenditure

    Friday, 14 June, 2013

    This note describes how UK official development assistance (overseas aid) is distributed.

    • Research Briefing
    • International development
    • Public spending

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