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For anti-colonial rhetoric in Zimbabwe read xenophobia and economic illiteracy
September 23, 2010

It appears that Robert Mugabe is not the only...

Bob Geldof is right: investment, rather than aid, is the way forward
September 3, 2010

Let business and the private sector do for Africa and...

Lessons for Nigeria’s free-trade zone
September 2, 2010

The news that China and Nigeria are partnering to form a 16,500 hectare free trade zone near Lagos could be a...

Africans do not want or need Britain's development aid
August 31, 2010

Aid Watch reports on a...

Wasteful aid spending shouldn’t be spared
August 20, 2010

Leaked plans to redirect government spending to the foreign aid budget are condemnable, but...

Will DfID “spend better”?
August 16, 2010

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More evidence of Chavez’s failings
August 16, 2010

Recently at IPN we talked about the misguided policies of Hugo Chavez’s regime and...

Aid is not about generosity, it should be about helping the world’s poorest.
August 11, 2010

A recent Newsweek article has castigated the recent drop in aid expenditure....

Mugabe, not “the West”, is responsible for Zimbabwe’s impoverishment
August 4, 2010

Tyrant, crocodile liberator, robber of the poor. All these labels apply to Robert Mugabe who...

Doing business in Africa needs more than targets
August 3, 2010

The Centre for Global Development has a proposal to...