Foreign aid

A Closer Union: The Political Abuse of Foreign Aid

Author: Caroline Boin

Publication date:

Monday, January 11, 2010

Does taxpayer money allocated by DfID to the Trade Unions Congress genuinely aid the development of poor countries?

Health as a human right: the wrong prescription

Author: Jacob Mchangama

Publication date:

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Should healthcare be a human right?

All in a good cause?

IPN News coverage

Today’s big charities are slick operations that spend huge sums on running costs and marketing, says Ed Howker. Worse, many of them have been annexed by the government

FT Climate Experts' Forum, 16 December

IPN Opinion article

Author: Julian Morris

IPN's Executive Director discusses what brings the leaders of developing countries to Copenhagen

Aid alone will not help

IPN Opinion article

Author: Philip Stevens

The UN and British government – egged on by NGOs and activists – has bet the house on the daft idea that if western governments transfer enough money to governments in poor countries, health systems will magically improve and medicines will get to sick kids. As far as strategies go, this is a turkey.

Why aid never reaches poor people

IPN Opinion article

Home Truths on Overseas Aid

IPN News coverage

An analysis of DfID spending, based on IPN's publication Fake Aid