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Development

Fragile states: next steps for the international community
ODI | Web log 12 03 2010 Fragile states are at the top of the policy and political agenda for donors, and at the heart of the UK electoral debates on the future of international development. In its 2009 White Paper, the UK Department for International Development (DFID) commits to substantially increase bilateral aid to fragile states; in their Green Paper, the Conservatives define conflict as a development issue and peace and stability as pre-requisite of development. Whoever wins the UK elections in May, engaging...(read more)

Gender needs to be more than a ‘tick-box’ in social protection programming
ODI | Web log 12 03 2010 On International Women's Day, this blog argues that gender issues are too rarely part and parcel of social protection programming....(read more)

African poverty is falling – do we dare believe it?
ODI | Web log 12 03 2010 A National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) paper issued this week by Xavier Sala-i-Martin and Maxim Pinkovskiy shows that: poverty in Africa is falling; that it is falling at a faster rate than expected; and that this holds true for a wide range of African economies. What’s more, if this trend continues, Africa will achieve the first Millennium Development Goal – halving the proportion of people living on less than one dollar a day – if not by the 2015 deadline, then shortly after. This...(read more)

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