Development organisations have criticised the government’s decision to merge its Department for International Development with its Foreign Office, especially amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
The UK government’s international departments are set for a shake-up, after prime minister Boris Johnson launched a review into how the country can face its “global opportunities and challenges”...
The Department for International Development has a new secretary of state, its fifth in less than four years, after Boris Johnson’s first major reshuffle since his landslide election win in December.
The chancellor’s aim of raising the UK’s economic growth to 2.75% per year is “unlikely” in the current climate, according to Britain’s oldest economic think-tank.
A flagship government programme hoped to prevent sexual violence globally is “at risk of letting survivors down” after its funding was cut drastically.
Companies benefiting from big UK government contracts operating in tax havens, public sector consulting bill tops £1.4bn and young and women suffer the most from unemployment in...
Mediterranean migration down 31%, developing countries burdened by $7.8trn debt and France’s sweeping tax cut plans - all in Numbers Game from the November 2019 edition of...
Aid should remain focused on eliminating poverty and inequality, an NGO has highlighted to political parties ahead of the general election in December.
Japan to fund ‘futuristic’ projects, Central America targets malaria and the Irish seek debt reduction - all in Numbers Game from the October 2019 edition of Public Finance magazine.
More than 700 million people worldwide still live in extreme poverty but it is possible to leverage scarce development resources to help change that, says the World Bank’s Akihiko Nishio.
The UK faces “extreme difficulty” in getting trade deals after Brexit unless it owns up to its colonial past and makes ‘soft reparations’, an international lawyer told an audience at the Institute...
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 government scheme to “turbo charge” private investment in developing countries’ infrastructure projects has been criticised as making an “opportunity” out of human suffering.
While some progress has been made on improving international ethical standards across the public finance sector there is still much to do, says CIPFA chief executive Rob Whiteman.
Between 2010 and 2017 60% - £4.6bn - of the UK’s support for energy in developing countries went towards fossil fuel sources, according to analysis by the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development....