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Government on the web: the next revolution
Seventeen years ago this month, I set up the first British government website. I was a…
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The Addis Sheraton and People in Rags
The satirical aid blog (“Hand Relief International“) is clearly written by someone who knows the aid…
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Faith based aid organisations
Nick Kristof writes approvingly in the New York Times about faith based aid organisations: Some liberals…
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Tim Harford lambasts the Robin Hood Tax campaign
Thim Harford lambasts the Robin Hood Tax campaign: The basic proposition of the RHT is that…
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Geeky stuff about browsers
<geek stuff> Obviously I don’t use Internet Explorer because it is (a) not compliant with standards;…
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Actionable ideas for shared prosperity
On the CGD blog, Nancy Birdsall proposes “Ten Actionable Ideas … for a 21st-Century Global Development…
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Why I am not a fan of the “Robin Hood tax”
No less a scholar than Bill Nighy urges us to support a “Robin Hood Tax” to…
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To them that hath … a fifth poverty trap for Africa?
Paul Collier’s last book, The Bottom Billion, proposed that there are four “traps” in which the…
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Aid, income and dutch disease
One argument that aid sceptics like to use – often without really understanding it – is…
