Will we be the first generation to eradicate malaria?
This isn’t the first time that Bill Gates and the UK government have announced a $3bn plan to eradicate malaria.
Owen Barder
Owen is Senior Fellow and Director for Europe at the Center for Global Development and a Visiting Professor in Practice at the London School of Economics. Owen was a civil servant for a quarter of a century, working in Number 10, the Treasury and the Department for International Development. Owen hosts the Development Drums podcast, and is the author Running for Fitness, the book and website. Owen is on Twitter and Google+
Price discrimination and welfare costs
There is nothing inherently wrong with price discrimination. But some of the mechanisms firms use to enforce it have huge welfare costs.
When the US Secretary of State reads your blog posts
One of my blog posts (written with Kim Elliott) ended up on Hillary Clinton’s desk according to the latest batch of released emails.
Strings attached
The Economist considers the implications of the UK’s new aid strategy.
Fat cats
By the end of today, the average Chief Executive of a FTSE 100 company will have been paid more than the average employee earns all year. The same average employee will have been paid more than the average Ethiopian earns all year.
Supporting our overseas workers (student loans edition)
It is time to change the British government rule which make the children of aid workers ineligible for student finance.
Is the UK putting its own interests ahead of the poor in its new aid strategy?
Britain’s new aid strategy has important implications, not only for DFID but for international organisations who will either need to adapt or face losing some of their core funding. Here’s why.
Vague about the Constitution
There was nothing unconstitutional about yesterday’s decision by the House of Lords.
XKCD on World Polio Day
XKCD teases the innovation fetish in international development.
We are the first generation in human history … again
Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank, says that the world is moving closer to the historic goal of ending poverty by 2030: This is the best story in the world today — these projections show us that we are the first generation in human history that can end extreme poverty … This new forecast of poverty falling into the single digits should give us new momentum and help us focus even more clearly on the most effective strategies to end extreme poverty. It will be extraordinarily hard, especially in a period of slower global growth, volatile financial markets, conflicts,… Read More »We are the first generation in human history … again