The UK spends more than other countries on education, although there are still a few sticking points, such as university student costs, explains HEPI’s Nick Hillman.
Rising global hunger, aid shortfalls and baby foods full of sugar - all in the Numbers Game from the September 2019 edition of Public Finance magazine.
A report commissioned by the Overseas Development Institute has called for the Department for International Development to better manage and prioritise its work.
Calls for a multi-billion-pound cut in the UK’s foreign aid budget and the abolition of the Department for International Development are a “recipe for disaster”, NGOs have warned.
The UK will compensate British NGOs for any loss of EU aid funding in the event of a ‘no deal’ Brexit, the government has said in a letter to the charities.
Governments must invest more in public services and citizens in order to boost sustainable and inclusive growth and tackle the problem of ‘left-behind’ groups, according to the OECD.
The UK’s aid spending is “chaotic”, Labour’s shadow international development secretary has said, setting out her own ‘feminist’ plan for global development.
The Department for International Development should ask other UK government departments to provide details of their aid expenditure in order to enhance transparency, according to the aid spending...
The Department for International Development’s response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa was ‘too slow’ and ‘failed to respond with urgency’ to the emerging crisis, according to a critical report...
British MPs have raised questions about the integrity of investments made by the Private Infrastructure Development Group, an agency that receives a large amount of funding from the UK Department for...
The UK aid spending target has presented the Department for International Development with challenges in managing its budget and spending, auditors have said
The UK has been urged to do more to ensure that government policies in areas such as defence and migration are supporting its broader international development goals.
Strong measures are needed to protect the NHS from the planned transatlantic free trade deal being negotiated by the European Union and the United States, the NHS Confederation has said.
MPs have urged the government to restate its commitment to spending at least 2% of gross domestic product on defence, saying that recent violence in the east of Ukraine and the Russian annexation of...
The government should introduce a new system of citizen registration to allow for better local planning of public services in areas with high levels of immigration, a think-tank has said today.
A majority of finance professionals working in non-profit organisations would like to see an international standard for financial reporting in the sector introduced, according to research from the...
