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Can the EU deliver joined-up thinking and action in international development? Eight steps for a bet
Maximum Aspiration and Minimum Standards: Driving Change in Business Contributions to Poverty Reduct
Pitching on the post-2015 goals: A Decent Life for All
How can the EU take forward the resilience agenda: a ten point plan
Is there a future for Northern NGOs in a world of MICs?
Review of Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James
Review of ‘The Carbon Crunch’ by Dieter Helm
The optimists and pessimists are far apart on climate change. How can we disrupt the psychological s
Conquering the Hydra: a twenty point programme for reform of multilateral aid
How to achieve lift-off for post-2015 global goals
Looking to the future of development and humanitarian aid: what can be seen in the crystal ball
Is there a blueprint for driving change at global level – and is it being applied to sustainable ene
Five stars for the Hunger Summit
Reflections on ICAI’s first year
The new EU development policy. A waymark reached. Is the finish line in sight?
Inclusive green growth - a review of the World Bank policy paper
Where are the biggest gains in aid effectiveness – practically speaking
Lessons beyond the local: Prospects for Peace and Development in South Sudan
Are countries ready for change? The new KPMG/ODI Change Readiness Index
Beware Greeks bearing gifts? The House of Lords on aid impact and effectiveness
Time to end ambiguity in European policy-making
The search is on for Rio and Los Cabos deliverables: how about a ‘green growth guarantee’?
Poor economics: a review
Will cities lead the charge? Review of The Triumph of the City by Edward Glaeser
Will second wave environmentalism learn from the errors of the first wave?
Too much aid to middle income countries? The EU’s aid allocation conundrum
Reflections on the Durban outcome
Wrapping up Busan
Re-thinking Europe: what development can offer
Living the Durban Durbar
Putting some bite into Busan
From Cannes to Los Cabos: the future of the G20
Can we make progress on green growth without a global deal?
Chatham House Climate Change Conference 2011
EADI/DSA Conference and ETTG Reports
Is vaccination good economics as well as good politics?
The G20 response to the food crisis of 2011 needs better politics and greater ambition
Budget support is becoming an endangered species: what Busan must do to save it
Is evolution a good model for innovation? Review of ‘Adapt’ by Tim Harford
A challenge to the ACP
What kind of shape is DFID in?
The results agenda 2.0
Seeing the wood for the trees: why Busan must raise its sights to shape the future of aid
Time to re-invent development studies?
Ten propositions on climate change and growth
The reviews are finished. Should DFID now publish a White Paper?
The HERR is here!
Looking behind the headlines of DFID’s bilateral and multilateral aid reviews
The European Commission one year in. How is it doing?
Scrutinising DfID
Davos 2011
Is it time to take an environment conference seriously?
European Development Cooperation: Priorities for 2011
Take climate negotiations to the highest level
The High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing: Global deal or civil service review?
Playing poker with EU development policy
In to bat for the aid programme
Doing aid centre-right: marrying a results-based agenda with the realities of aid
Shaping the mission statement and the work programme of the G20
Climate Change 2010 - Chatham House conference
Why a focus on mitigation and adaptation conceals the real challenge of climate change
Review of ‘War Games: The Story of Aid and War in Modern Times’ by Linda Polman
UK suspension of aid to Ethiopia raises accountability questions
A special $20 billion aid fund for Africa? Perhaps, but not just yet…
The pilot IFF gets the go-ahead. Now is the time to start talking about the future aid architecture
UN Summit: Getting the structures right and securing effective collective action
Diplomats and NGOs to blame for UN Summit failure – send them all to boot camp
The cost of war: DRC seeks £10 billion from Uganda
Is the WTO too complicated? Or not complicated enough?
Six approaches to fragile states
Can the International Health Partnership deliver a new way of funding health spending?
Is ‘human security’ a neat way of framing a poverty-focused aid programme, or a clever device for th
Blunt and brutal. But UN reform is possible. Blair, Brown and Benn can make it happen
What will the High Level Panel on UN Reform announce this Thursday?
Is Sir Mike Aaronson right to call for DfID to be merged back with the FCO?
Is Tony Blair’s legacy on Africa at risk?
Will the new EU Code of Conduct on Division of Labour improve or undermine aid quality?
Where are the political divides on international development?
Globalisation and Global Poverty Policy Group Report
What future for the World Bank?
A master-class in bridging research and policy
Important messages from the UK government on international development. Are we listening?
Re-imagining EU development aid
Where next for DfID? A public debate is needed on the forthcoming PSA and budget settlement
Will rising food prices derail development efforts?
Tackling the food price crisis: 5 steps
Rome exceeded expectations; will the G8 do the same?
Reform of the International System: the momentum is building
The food crisis: are we making progress?
The Millenium Development Goals are at risk: The EU should give them new momentum
High drama at the High Level Forum
Can we move from a risk framework to an opportunities framework in international development?
Multilateralism in action
The G-20 is a temporary sticking plaster, not a full organ transplant
Dealing with the crisis: here comes the EU
The alarm bells are ringing on aid, but the UK is leading the way
G-20 -- a starting gun for recovery
From regional club to global player: how Lisbon could transform Europe
The spring package is a promising start
G-20 - CIGI:Ontario
Brussels March 2010
Brussels April 2010
Davos 2010
Yogyakarta - ASEM
Topics & Themes
Conquering the Hydra: a twenty point programme for reform of multilateral aid
Where are the biggest gains in aid effectiveness – practically speaking?
Is there a blueprint for driving change at global level – and is it being applied to sustainable ene
Reflections on ICAI’s first year
Beware Greeks bearing gifts? The House of Lords on aid impact and effectiveness
Beware Greeks bearing gifts? The House of Lords on aid impact and effectiveness
Wrapping up Busan
Are you an aid boffin or an aid muffin?
Doing aid centre-right: marrying a results-based agenda with the realities of aid
In to bat for the aid programme
Scrutinising DfID
Time to re-invent development studies?
Seeing the wood for the trees: why Busan must raise its sights to shape the future of aid
The results agenda 2.0
Budget support is becoming an endangered species: what Busan must do to save it
For Richer, For Fairer: Poverty Reduction and Income Distribution
Commodity Aid and Counterpart Funds in Africa
Food Aid To Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review Of The Literature
Counterpart Funds and Development
Moorgate
High drama at the High Level Forum
Accra High Level Forum
Multilateralism in action
Can the International Health Partnership deliver a new way of funding health spending?
Globalisation and Global Poverty Policy Group Report
Partnerships at the Leading Edge: A Danish Vision for Knowledge, Research and Development
Will the new EU Code of Conduct on Division of Labour improve or undermine aid quality?
Is Tony Blair’s legacy on Africa at risk?
Is ‘human security’ a neat way of framing a poverty-focused aid programme, or a clever device for th
Six approaches to fragile states
UK suspension of aid to Ethiopia raises accountability questions
A special $20 billion aid fund for Africa? Perhaps, but not just yet…
The pilot IFF gets the go-ahead. Now is the time to start talking about the future aid architecture
Farming and the poor: seven new challenges
Initial Specialist Comments for DFID on J-A Arcand (2001) 'Undernourishment and Economic Growth: The
”Negotiation as simultaneous equation” : building a new partnership with Africa
The alarm bells are ringing on aid, but the UK is leading the way
Africa Have Your Say Interview
There are better ways to avert financial scandals
Aid industry needs slimming down in order to tackle world poverty
Making research on globalisation work for the poor: a commentary on Adrian Wood ‘Making globalisatio
Launching the DFID consultation ‘New Directions for Agriculture in Reducing Poverty’
International Development Targets - focusing policy or measuring results?
Inspiring Action to Reduce Poverty
Doing Development in a Downturn
How do development and foreign policy connect?
The Africa Commission’s ‘Big Push’
The Asian Tsunami: Economic Impacts and Impacts for Aid and Aid Architecture
Aid: What’s next?
Can standards and codes prevent financial crises?
More aid? Yes - and use it to reshape aid architecture
Spyglass. Spigot. Spoon. Or Spanner. What future for bilateral aid?
Capturing All Our Histories: The Biography of Sir Hans Singer
Developing the Consensus: Does the World Development Report herald a new approach?
Six characters (and a few more) in search of an author: how to rescue rural development before it’s
Perspectives in Partnerships
Comprehensive Approaches: Lessons from the Past
Can debates about poverty in developing countries enrich debates about health in developed countries
New Thinking on Poverty in the UK: Any Lessons for the South?
The Meaning and Measurement of Poverty
Eliminating World Poverty: Building our Common Future - Review article
Making the system work
Should we provide a guarantee that no child will be brain-damaged in Africa if money can prevent it?
Exhilarating, Exhausting, Intriguing: The Report of the Africa Commission
The recession’s storm holds a silver lining for development cooperation
Innovative and important, yes, but also instrumental and incomplete: the treatment of redistribution
Financing development: from Monterrey to Doha
International Aid: what sort of structure should it have?
Important messages from the UK government on international development. Are we listening?
Is Sir Mike Aaronson right to call for DfID to be merged back with the FCO?
Reforming the Intenational aid architecture: Options and ways forward
The future of aid: user perspectives on reform of the international aid system
Aid in the form of expertise - Times of Malta article
Country Programme Evaluation: A State of the Art Review
ODI's 50th Anniversary
Researchers and NGOs: Working Together
How Can Researchers Be “Policy Entrepreneurs”?’ summary of presentation at EADI Directors
Bridges across boundaries: Linking research and policy in international development
Conditionality or Contract: Perspectives on Partnership for Development
Bridging Research and Policy
Global Knowledge Networks and International Development
Policy entrepreneurship for poverty reduction: bridging research and policy in international develop
Policy entrepreneurship for poverty reduction: bridging research and policy in international develop
Consultation on supporting the linkages between business and development (funded by the United Natio
Harnessing the power of business for development impact: towards the fourth generation
Stepping up the ladder: how business can help achieve the MDGs
The optimists and pessimists are far apart on climate change. How can we disrupt the psychological s
Is there a blueprint for driving change at global level – and is it being applied to sustainable ene
The search is on for Rio and Los Cabos deliverables: how about a ‘green growth guarantee’?
Will second wave environmentalism learn from the errors of the first wave?
Reflections on the Durban outcome
Living the Durban Durbar
Giant strides or fairy footsteps
Can we make progress on green growth without a global deal?
Chatham House climate change conference 2011
Why a focus on mitigation and adaptation conceals the real challenge of climate change
Climate Change 2010 - Chatham House conference
The High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing: Global deal or civil service review?
Take climate negotiations to the highest level
Should the EU set up a Leader's Group to accelerate progress on global climate negotiations?
Is it time to take an environment conference seriously?
Ten propositions on climate change and growth
The political economy of climate change
CDKN Action Lab
Listen to Scheherazade
After 2015: new challenges in development - climate finance
Climate Compatible Development - Making It Magazine Article
Climate Change & Development - Andrew Mitchell Speech
CDKNetwork in conversation video series
New CDKN Policy Brief: Defining climate compatible development
Can big business really save the planet?
Climate and Development Knowledge Network video
The politics of climate change
CDKN: Interview; in conversation... with Saleemul Huq
How can the EU take forward the resilience agenda: a ten point plan
The new EU development policy. A waymark reached. Is the finish line in sight?
The new EU development policy. A waymark reached. Is the finish line in sight?
Time to end ambiguity in European policy-making
Too much aid to middle income countries? The EU’s aid allocation conundrum.
Modernising European Development Policy
Re-thinking Europe: what development can offer
EU Development Policy: an Agenda for Change
EU aid: what's it for?
From regional club to global player: how Lisbon could transform Europe
The spring package is a promising start
Playing poker with EU development policy
European Development Cooperation: Priorities for 2011
The European Commission one year in. How is it doing?
Why the EU’s aid effort must escape the budgetary axe
European Aid: aspiring to the gold medal
An EU-12 perspective on European development cooperation
The debate on the Financial Perspectives is hotting up
Ideas for Development European Development Days Video
Does European Aid Work? An Ethiopian Case Study
Evidence to the House of Lords EU Committee on Inquiry into the European External Action Service
Three months to shape Europe’s international role
Europe: the world awaits
Consolidation or Cooperation: The Future of EU Development Cooperation
EU development policy: Time to articulate the Commander’s Intent
European Development Co-operation to 2020: The issues
Revising the EU Development Policy: Issues and Options
The evolution of EU Development Cooperation: Taking the Change Agenda Forward
Development proofing the European External Action Service
Kapuscinski Lectures - (video) 15 October, Hungary, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Kapuscinski Lectures - (video) 26 November, Malta, Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies
The EU and the Poor: Unfinished business
European Development Cooperation to 2010
The co-ordination of development co-operation in the European union
Putting the right words in the right order: Reflections on the Report of the Reflection Group
Where Europe Stands in the New Aid Architecture and Why We Need a New €5bn European MDG Fund
The spring package is a promising start
The main challenges to development in EU global action
European Development Policy
European Development Cooperation to 2010: new challenges
Development Research in Europe: towards an (all) star alliance
Now Europe has a chance of global leadership on development policy
Options for architectural reform in European Union development cooperation
Dealing with the crisis: here comes the EU
Reading between the lines: are European development ministers living up to expectations?
Europe’s global challenge: three crucial months
From regional club to global player: how Lisbon could transform Europe
Reading between the lines. Is EU aid in trouble?
Re-imagining EU development aid
New Challenges, New beginnings: Next steps in European Development Cooperation
Five stars for the Hunger Summit
Is there a blueprint for driving change at global level – and is it being applied to sustainable ene
The G20 response to the food crisis of 2011 needs better politics and greater ambition
Household Food Security: Concepts and Definitions: An Annotated Bibliography
Household Food Security: Concepts, Indicators, Measurements
To Cure all Hunger: Food Policy and Food Security in Sudan
Food Security in Developing Countries
Food prices: video of evidence to House of Commons International Development Committee
Food security: a post-modern perspective
Food for thought in Rome
The global local food market
Organisational Issues in Food Security Planning
Agricultural Issues in Food Security
The Evolution of Thinking about Food Security
Food Security in Africa
Food Policy Old and New
An Agenda for the World Food Summit
Review article: perspectives on a new world food crisis
Rome’s food summit: a torch passed
The food crisis: are we making progress?
Tackling the food price crisis: 5 steps
Will rising food prices derail development efforts?
Is there a blueprint for driving change at global level – and is it being applied to sustainable ene
From Cannes to Los Cabos: the future of the G20
Shaping the mission statement and the work programme of the G20
A challenge to the ACP
More of the Same or Something New? Development and the G20
G-20 - CIGI: Ontario
Rome exceeded expectations; will the G8 do the same?
Blunt and brutal. But UN reform is possible. Blair, Brown and Benn can make it happen
Diplomats and NGOs to blame for UN Summit failure – send them all to boot camp
What will the High Level Panel on UN Reform announce this Thursday?
Is the WTO too complicated? Or not complicated enough?
UN Summit: Getting the structures right and securing effective collective action
A Development Charter for the G-20
The G-20 is a temporary sticking plaster, not a full organ transplant
Global governance innovations to stabilize globalisation: The G20 summit must initiate a political b
G-20 -- a starting gun for recovery
Reform of the International System: the momentum is building
System Failure
UN Reform: An eight step programme for more effective collective action
New Approaches to Planning
Governance Reform of the Bretton Woods Institutions and the UN Development System
Global Governance: an Agenda for the Renewal of the United Nations
How to help reform multilateral institutions: an eight-step program for more effective collective ac
A new global order: Bretton Woods II...and San Francisco II
Inside the palace of glass
G8 is Gr8?
What future for the World Bank?
A Commonwealth Initiative to Support UN Reform
Reform of International Institutions: Towards a Commonwealth Agenda
13. Poverty and Social Exclusion in North and South
Global social justice as a new focus for development policy?
What Can We Do With a Rights-Based Approach to Development?
Human Rights and the Millenium Development Goals: contradictory frameworks?
Lessons beyond the local: Prospects for Peace and Development in South Sudan
Looking to the future of development and humanitarian aid: what can be seen in the crystal ball?
The HERR is here!
Building Resilience and Responding to Humanitarian need: An Open Letter to the World Economic Forum
New business partnerships for humanitarian assistance
The cost of war: DRC seeks £10 billion from Uganda
Global Agenda Council proposal - Davos 2010
Rethinking Humanitarian Assistance - Davos 2010
A new business model for humanitarian assistance?
A New Business Model for Humanitarian Assistance?
onthinktanks interview
Organisational Issues in New Forms of Multi-Sectoral Planning
Change Management
Managing Change in Development Research Institute
Think Tanks
Planning for the future and managing change in research institutes and think tanks
Managing Change: New Challenges for Development Research Initiatives and Think - Tanks
The Millennium Development Goals: An Assessment
The Millenium Development Goals are at risk: The EU should give them new momentum
The Social Scientist In Farming Systems Research
Farming Systems Research: Hitting A Moving Target
The role of case studies in farming systems research
Cash crops in developing countries: The issues, the facts, the policies
Emerging Issues in Rural Development: An Issues Paper
New Trends in Development Thinking and Implications for Agriculture
Rethinking Rural Development
Options for Rural Poverty Reduction in Central America
Rethinking Rural Development
Growing bananas on Ben Nevis
Is there a future for Northern NGOs in a world of MICs?
How to achieve lift-off for post-2015 global goals
Results and Value-for-Money: from Results 1.0 to Results 2.0
Visioning Development Cooperation of the Future
Focus on global development
Looking behind the headlines of DFID’s bilateral and multilateral aid reviews
The reviews are finished. Should DFID now publish a White Paper?
What kind of shape is DFID in?
Linking Relief and Development
Can we move from a risk framework to an opportunities framework in international development?
Where are the political divides on international development?
Where next? Setting the agenda for partnership to 2015
Kapuscinski Lectures - (video) 15 October, Hungary, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Kapuscinski Lectures - (video) 26 November, Malta, Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies
Ten steps to a new development agenda
What’s next in international development?
The Washington Consensus is Dead! Long Live the Meta-Narrative!
From Crisis Management to Long-term Prosperity: the Role of the Commonwealth
A master-class in bridging research and policy
The Future of Development Partnerships in Asia: Mapping the Agenda to 2015
Global development: Barack Obama’s agenda
The global development agenda in 2007
Manifesto for a new world
Where next for DfID? A public debate is needed on the forthcoming PSA and budget settlement
What’s Next in International Development? Perspectives from the 20% Club and the 0.2% Club
Where next for development studies? Coverage, capacity, communications
Aid and aid management
Conquering the Hydra: a twenty point programme for reform of multilateral aid
Where are the biggest gains in aid effectiveness – practically speaking?
Is there a blueprint for driving change at global level – and is it being applied to sustainable ene
Reflections on ICAI’s first year
Beware Greeks bearing gifts? The House of Lords on aid impact and effectiveness
Beware Greeks bearing gifts? The House of Lords on aid impact and effectiveness
Wrapping up Busan
Are you an aid boffin or an aid muffin?
Doing aid centre-right: marrying a results-based agenda with the realities of aid
In to bat for the aid programme
Scrutinising DfID
Time to re-invent development studies?
Seeing the wood for the trees: why Busan must raise its sights to shape the future of aid
The results agenda 2.0
Budget support is becoming an endangered species: what Busan must do to save it
For Richer, For Fairer: Poverty Reduction and Income Distribution
Commodity Aid and Counterpart Funds in Africa
Food Aid To Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review Of The Literature
Counterpart Funds and Development
Moorgate
High drama at the High Level Forum
Accra High Level Forum
Multilateralism in action
Can the International Health Partnership deliver a new way of funding health spending?
Globalisation and Global Poverty Policy Group Report
Partnerships at the Leading Edge: A Danish Vision for Knowledge, Research and Development
Will the new EU Code of Conduct on Division of Labour improve or undermine aid quality?
Is Tony Blair’s legacy on Africa at risk?
Is ‘human security’ a neat way of framing a poverty-focused aid programme, or a clever device for th
Six approaches to fragile states
UK suspension of aid to Ethiopia raises accountability questions
A special $20 billion aid fund for Africa? Perhaps, but not just yet…
The pilot IFF gets the go-ahead. Now is the time to start talking about the future aid architecture
Farming and the poor: seven new challenges
Initial Specialist Comments for DFID on J-A Arcand (2001) 'Undernourishment and Economic Growth: The
”Negotiation as simultaneous equation” : building a new partnership with Africa
The alarm bells are ringing on aid, but the UK is leading the way
Africa Have Your Say Interview
There are better ways to avert financial scandals
Aid industry needs slimming down in order to tackle world poverty
Making research on globalisation work for the poor: a commentary on Adrian Wood ‘Making globalisatio
Launching the DFID consultation ‘New Directions for Agriculture in Reducing Poverty’
International Development Targets - focusing policy or measuring results?
Inspiring Action to Reduce Poverty
Doing Development in a Downturn
How do development and foreign policy connect?
The Africa Commission’s ‘Big Push’
The Asian Tsunami: Economic Impacts and Impacts for Aid and Aid Architecture
Aid: What’s next?
Can standards and codes prevent financial crises?
More aid? Yes - and use it to reshape aid architecture
Spyglass. Spigot. Spoon. Or Spanner. What future for bilateral aid?
Capturing All Our Histories: The Biography of Sir Hans Singer
Developing the Consensus: Does the World Development Report herald a new approach?
Six characters (and a few more) in search of an author: how to rescue rural development before it’s
Perspectives in Partnerships
Comprehensive Approaches: Lessons from the Past
Can debates about poverty in developing countries enrich debates about health in developed countries
New Thinking on Poverty in the UK: Any Lessons for the South?
The Meaning and Measurement of Poverty
Eliminating World Poverty: Building our Common Future - Review article
Making the system work
Should we provide a guarantee that no child will be brain-damaged in Africa if money can prevent it?
Exhilarating, Exhausting, Intriguing: The Report of the Africa Commission
The recession’s storm holds a silver lining for development cooperation
Innovative and important, yes, but also instrumental and incomplete: the treatment of redistribution
Financing development: from Monterrey to Doha
International Aid: what sort of structure should it have?
Important messages from the UK government on international development. Are we listening?
Is Sir Mike Aaronson right to call for DfID to be merged back with the FCO?
Reforming the Intenational aid architecture: Options and ways forward
The future of aid: user perspectives on reform of the international aid system
Aid in the form of expertise - Times of Malta article
Bridging research and policy
Country Programme Evaluation: A State of the Art Review
ODI's 50th Anniversary
Researchers and NGOs: Working Together
How Can Researchers Be “Policy Entrepreneurs”?’ summary of presentation at EADI Directors
Bridges across boundaries: Linking research and policy in international development
Conditionality or Contract: Perspectives on Partnership for Development
Bridging Research and Policy
Global Knowledge Networks and International Development
Policy entrepreneurship for poverty reduction: bridging research and policy in international develop
Policy entrepreneurship for poverty reduction: bridging research and policy in international develop
Business and development
Consultation on supporting the linkages between business and development (funded by the United Natio
Harnessing the power of business for development impact: towards the fourth generation
Stepping up the ladder: how business can help achieve the MDGs
Climate change and development
The optimists and pessimists are far apart on climate change. How can we disrupt the psychological s
Is there a blueprint for driving change at global level – and is it being applied to sustainable ene
The search is on for Rio and Los Cabos deliverables: how about a ‘green growth guarantee’?
Will second wave environmentalism learn from the errors of the first wave?
Reflections on the Durban outcome
Living the Durban Durbar
Giant strides or fairy footsteps
Can we make progress on green growth without a global deal?
Chatham House climate change conference 2011
Why a focus on mitigation and adaptation conceals the real challenge of climate change
Climate Change 2010 - Chatham House conference
The High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing: Global deal or civil service review?
Take climate negotiations to the highest level
Should the EU set up a Leader's Group to accelerate progress on global climate negotiations?
Is it time to take an environment conference seriously?
Ten propositions on climate change and growth
The political economy of climate change
CDKN Action Lab
Listen to Scheherazade
After 2015: new challenges in development - climate finance
Climate Compatible Development - Making It Magazine Article
Climate Change & Development - Andrew Mitchell Speech
CDKNetwork in conversation video series
New CDKN Policy Brief: Defining climate compatible development
Can big business really save the planet?
Climate and Development Knowledge Network video
The politics of climate change
CDKN: Interview; in conversation... with Saleemul Huq
European development cooperation
How can the EU take forward the resilience agenda: a ten point plan
The new EU development policy. A waymark reached. Is the finish line in sight?
The new EU development policy. A waymark reached. Is the finish line in sight?
Time to end ambiguity in European policy-making
Too much aid to middle income countries? The EU’s aid allocation conundrum.
Modernising European Development Policy
Re-thinking Europe: what development can offer
EU Development Policy: an Agenda for Change
EU aid: what's it for?
From regional club to global player: how Lisbon could transform Europe
The spring package is a promising start
Playing poker with EU development policy
European Development Cooperation: Priorities for 2011
The European Commission one year in. How is it doing?
Why the EU’s aid effort must escape the budgetary axe
European Aid: aspiring to the gold medal
An EU-12 perspective on European development cooperation
The debate on the Financial Perspectives is hotting up
Ideas for Development European Development Days Video
Does European Aid Work? An Ethiopian Case Study
Evidence to the House of Lords EU Committee on Inquiry into the European External Action Service
Three months to shape Europe’s international role
Europe: the world awaits
Consolidation or Cooperation: The Future of EU Development Cooperation
EU development policy: Time to articulate the Commander’s Intent
European Development Co-operation to 2020: The issues
Revising the EU Development Policy: Issues and Options
The evolution of EU Development Cooperation: Taking the Change Agenda Forward
Development proofing the European External Action Service
Kapuscinski Lectures - (video) 15 October, Hungary, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Kapuscinski Lectures - (video) 26 November, Malta, Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies
The EU and the Poor: Unfinished business
European Development Cooperation to 2010
The co-ordination of development co-operation in the European union
Putting the right words in the right order: Reflections on the Report of the Reflection Group
Where Europe Stands in the New Aid Architecture and Why We Need a New €5bn European MDG Fund
The spring package is a promising start
The main challenges to development in EU global action
European Development Policy
European Development Cooperation to 2010: new challenges
Development Research in Europe: towards an (all) star alliance
Now Europe has a chance of global leadership on development policy
Options for architectural reform in European Union development cooperation
Dealing with the crisis: here comes the EU
Reading between the lines: are European development ministers living up to expectations?
Europe’s global challenge: three crucial months
From regional club to global player: how Lisbon could transform Europe
Reading between the lines. Is EU aid in trouble?
Re-imagining EU development aid
New Challenges, New beginnings: Next steps in European Development Cooperation
Food security
Five stars for the Hunger Summit
Is there a blueprint for driving change at global level – and is it being applied to sustainable ene
The G20 response to the food crisis of 2011 needs better politics and greater ambition
Household Food Security: Concepts and Definitions: An Annotated Bibliography
Household Food Security: Concepts, Indicators, Measurements
To Cure all Hunger: Food Policy and Food Security in Sudan
Food Security in Developing Countries
Food prices: video of evidence to House of Commons International Development Committee
Food security: a post-modern perspective
Food for thought in Rome
The global local food market
Organisational Issues in Food Security Planning
Agricultural Issues in Food Security
The Evolution of Thinking about Food Security
Food Security in Africa
Food Policy Old and New
An Agenda for the World Food Summit
Review article: perspectives on a new world food crisis
Rome’s food summit: a torch passed
The food crisis: are we making progress?
Tackling the food price crisis: 5 steps
Will rising food prices derail development efforts?
Global Governance
Is there a blueprint for driving change at global level – and is it being applied to sustainable ene
From Cannes to Los Cabos: the future of the G20
Shaping the mission statement and the work programme of the G20
A challenge to the ACP
More of the Same or Something New? Development and the G20
G-20 - CIGI: Ontario
Rome exceeded expectations; will the G8 do the same?
Blunt and brutal. But UN reform is possible. Blair, Brown and Benn can make it happen
Diplomats and NGOs to blame for UN Summit failure – send them all to boot camp
What will the High Level Panel on UN Reform announce this Thursday?
Is the WTO too complicated? Or not complicated enough?
UN Summit: Getting the structures right and securing effective collective action
A Development Charter for the G-20
The G-20 is a temporary sticking plaster, not a full organ transplant
Global governance innovations to stabilize globalisation: The G20 summit must initiate a political b
G-20 -- a starting gun for recovery
Reform of the International System: the momentum is building
System Failure
UN Reform: An eight step programme for more effective collective action
New Approaches to Planning
Governance Reform of the Bretton Woods Institutions and the UN Development System
Global Governance: an Agenda for the Renewal of the United Nations
How to help reform multilateral institutions: an eight-step program for more effective collective ac
A new global order: Bretton Woods II...and San Francisco II
Inside the palace of glass
G8 is Gr8?
What future for the World Bank?
A Commonwealth Initiative to Support UN Reform
Reform of International Institutions: Towards a Commonwealth Agenda
Human rights and social justice
13. Poverty and Social Exclusion in North and South
Global social justice as a new focus for development policy?
What Can We Do With a Rights-Based Approach to Development?
Human Rights and the Millenium Development Goals: contradictory frameworks?
Humanitarian assistance
Lessons beyond the local: Prospects for Peace and Development in South Sudan
Looking to the future of development and humanitarian aid: what can be seen in the crystal ball?
The HERR is here!
Building Resilience and Responding to Humanitarian need: An Open Letter to the World Economic Forum
New business partnerships for humanitarian assistance
The cost of war: DRC seeks £10 billion from Uganda
Global Agenda Council proposal - Davos 2010
Rethinking Humanitarian Assistance - Davos 2010
A new business model for humanitarian assistance?
A New Business Model for Humanitarian Assistance?
Managing think-tanks
onthinktanks interview
Organisational Issues in New Forms of Multi-Sectoral Planning
Change Management
Managing Change in Development Research Institute
Think Tanks
Planning for the future and managing change in research institutes and think tanks
Managing Change: New Challenges for Development Research Initiatives and Think - Tanks
Poverty and the MDGs
The Millennium Development Goals: An Assessment
The Millenium Development Goals are at risk: The EU should give them new momentum
Rural development
The Social Scientist In Farming Systems Research
Farming Systems Research: Hitting A Moving Target
The role of case studies in farming systems research
Cash crops in developing countries: The issues, the facts, the policies
Emerging Issues in Rural Development: An Issues Paper
New Trends in Development Thinking and Implications for Agriculture
Rethinking Rural Development
Options for Rural Poverty Reduction in Central America
Rethinking Rural Development
Growing bananas on Ben Nevis
What’s next in international development?
Is there a future for Northern NGOs in a world of MICs?
How to achieve lift-off for post-2015 global goals
Results and Value-for-Money: from Results 1.0 to Results 2.0
Visioning Development Cooperation of the Future
Focus on global development
Looking behind the headlines of DFID’s bilateral and multilateral aid reviews
The reviews are finished. Should DFID now publish a White Paper?
What kind of shape is DFID in?
Linking Relief and Development
Can we move from a risk framework to an opportunities framework in international development?
Where are the political divides on international development?
Where next? Setting the agenda for partnership to 2015
Kapuscinski Lectures - (video) 15 October, Hungary, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Kapuscinski Lectures - (video) 26 November, Malta, Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies
Ten steps to a new development agenda
What’s next in international development?
The Washington Consensus is Dead! Long Live the Meta-Narrative!
From Crisis Management to Long-term Prosperity: the Role of the Commonwealth
A master-class in bridging research and policy
The Future of Development Partnerships in Asia: Mapping the Agenda to 2015
Global development: Barack Obama’s agenda
The global development agenda in 2007
Manifesto for a new world
Where next for DfID? A public debate is needed on the forthcoming PSA and budget settlement
What’s Next in International Development? Perspectives from the 20% Club and the 0.2% Club
Where next for development studies? Coverage, capacity, communications
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Why Poverty Persists: Poverty Dynamics in Asia and Africa
The Righteous Mind: An Application
Review of ‘The Carbon Crunch’ by Dieter Helm
Review of Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James
A master-class in bridging research and policy
Inclusive green growth: A review of the World Bank policy paper
Will cities lead the charge? Review of The Triumph of the City by Edward Glaeser
Poor economics: a review
Is evolution a good model for innovation? Review of ‘Adapt’ by Tim Harford
Review of ‘War Games: The Story of Aid and War in Modern Times’ by Linda Polman
Projects
Executive Chair - Climate & Development Knowledge Network (funded by the UK Government through PWC)
European Development Cooperation Strengthening Programme (funded by the Department for International
Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons International Development Select Committee
Various advisory positions
Reform of the International System of Governance in Development Cooperation: the Role of the EU (fun
Canadian Foreign Aid and Development (funded by the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation)
European Investment Bank Mid Term Review of External Lending Mandates (funded by the European Invest
Towards an Asia-Europe Partnership for Sustainable Development (funded by the EC / Tech4Dev)
Member of the Senior Advisory Board of the DFID Humanitarian Emergency Response Review
Think Tanks (funded by ....)
Member of the German Marshall Fund Transatlantic Task Force on Development
Consultation on supporting the linkages between business and development (funded by the United Natio
Harnessing the Power of Business for Development Impact (funded by Business Action for Africa)
South Asia Forum (funded by the Department for International Development)
Beyond 2015: starting the conceptual debate about the future of the Millenium Declaration and the MD
Aid Effectiveness Beyond 2010 (funded by the Overseas Deveopment Institute)
Video - Kapuscinski Lectures - 15 October, Hungary, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Video - Kapuscinski Lectures - 26 November, Malta, Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies (fund
Board Member, International Food Policy Research Institute (from January 2013)
Member, World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Poverty and Economic Development
Trustee of the Fairtrade Foundation
Trustee of Fundacion par las Relaciones Internacionales y el Dialogo Exterior (FRIDE) (Madrid)
Member of the Circle of Advisers, Business Fights Poverty
Member, Advisory Board, Trade Out of Poverty
Current Projects
Executive Chair - Climate & Development Knowledge Network (funded by the UK Government through PWC)
European Development Cooperation Strengthening Programme (funded by the Department for International
Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons International Development Select Committee
Various advisory positions
Recent Projects
Reform of the International System of Governance in Development Cooperation: the Role of the EU (fun
Canadian Foreign Aid and Development (funded by the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation)
European Investment Bank Mid Term Review of External Lending Mandates (funded by the European Invest
Towards an Asia-Europe Partnership for Sustainable Development (funded by the EC / Tech4Dev)
Member of the Senior Advisory Board of the DFID Humanitarian Emergency Response Review
Think Tanks (funded by ....)
Member of the German Marshall Fund Transatlantic Task Force on Development
Consultation on supporting the linkages between business and development (funded by the United Natio
Harnessing the Power of Business for Development Impact (funded by Business Action for Africa)
South Asia Forum (funded by the Department for International Development)
Beyond 2015: starting the conceptual debate about the future of the Millenium Declaration and the MD
Aid Effectiveness Beyond 2010 (funded by the Overseas Deveopment Institute)
Video - Kapuscinski Lectures - 15 October, Hungary, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Video - Kapuscinski Lectures - 26 November, Malta, Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies (fund
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Member of the Circle of Advisers, Business Fights Poverty
Member, Advisory Board, Trade Out of Poverty
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Development Policy in a Changing World
Modernising European Development Policy
Toward the Consolidation of G20 Summits: From Crisis Committee to Global Steering Committee
Consultation on supporting the linkages between business and development (funded by the United Natio
World Economic Forum Annual Meetings
Harnessing the Power of Business for Development Impact
European Investment Bank
Department for International Development
World Bank/OECD: Accra High Level Forum
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Executive Chair - Climate & Development Knowledge Network (funded by the UK Government through PWC)
European Development Cooperation Strengthening Programme (funded by the Department for International
Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons International Development Select Committee
Various advisory positions
Recent Projects
Reform of the International System of Governance in Development Cooperation: the Role of the EU (fun
Canadian Foreign Aid and Development (funded by the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation)
European Investment Bank Mid Term Review of External Lending Mandates (funded by the European Invest
Towards an Asia-Europe Partnership for Sustainable Development (funded by the EC / Tech4Dev)
Member of the Senior Advisory Board of the DFID Humanitarian Emergency Response Review
Think Tanks (funded by ....)
Member of the German Marshall Fund Transatlantic Task Force on Development
Consultation on supporting the linkages between business and development (funded by the United Natio
Harnessing the Power of Business for Development Impact (funded by Business Action for Africa)
South Asia Forum (funded by the Department for International Development)
Beyond 2015: starting the conceptual debate about the future of the Millenium Declaration and the MD
Aid Effectiveness Beyond 2010 (funded by the Overseas Deveopment Institute)
Video - Kapuscinski Lectures - 15 October, Hungary, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Video - Kapuscinski Lectures - 26 November, Malta, Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies (fund
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Board Member, International Food Policy Research Institute (from January 2013)
Member, World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Poverty and Economic Development
Trustee of the Fairtrade Foundation
Trustee of Fundacion par las Relaciones Internacionales y el Dialogo Exterior (FRIDE) (Madrid)
Member of the Circle of Advisers, Business Fights Poverty
Member, Advisory Board, Trade Out of Poverty
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