If you’re pondering the sad state of affairs in Iraq, Syria and much of the rest of the...
Category - Global aid issues
The SDGs, Kenny Rogers and making choices
When Terence Wood bemoaned the lack of country and western songs about development in a recent post...
Why the SDGs will break your heart
It’s a pity there aren’t more country and western songs about development. There are...
Weekend links: Žižek on Greece, Worm Wars, an empiricist strikes...
In this weekend’s edition of the links, we start with a long read from philosopher...
A positive prognosis for community-based NCD screening
A study published this month by The Lancet Global Health is the first to demonstrate that community...
Two words to expunge from development speak and two we ought to...
Development doesn’t have a way with words. It scrunches names into acronyms. It potholes...
Private sector reservations and policies
My early years in the World Bank involved broad support for expanding the role of the public sector...
Weekend links: Latin America, labour rights, development results...
Starting with Latin America, John Perry writes of violence in Honduras and its role in contributing...
Policy choices matter, even for the resource-rich
After spending 37 years at the World Bank giving advice to governments and ministries, I felt it...
The Sustainable Development Goals: Team Bumblebee or Team...
The sun is setting rapidly on the MDG era. Only months away, at the end of September, world leaders...