Foreign aid

Africa should ignore Gordon Brown’s call

IPN Opinion article

Author: Alec van Gelder

Opening up markets to competition will improve Africans' access to life-changing communications technology (whereas Western aid propping up telecommunications monopolies will not).

Cutting aid: Julian Harris on Radio 5 Live 'Drive'

Julian Harris discusses ways the government could cut ineffective aid spending

Timothy Cox on Radio 5

Author: Timothy Cox

Timothy Cox discusses Gordon Brown's aid-for-trade proposal on Radio 5 Live's weekend news

Julian Harris on "The Daily Politics", BBC2

Julian Harris discusses the efficacy of foreign aid on the BBC 

Alec van Gelder on "Today"

IPN News coverage

Author: Alec van Gelder

Alec van Gelder discusses UK aid policy toward India 

Cameron's Live Aid generation still wants to feed the world

IPN News coverage

Author: Caroline Boin

 JULY 13, 1985 – it was billed as the day that music changed the world. But what exactly did Live Aid achieve?