Trade incentives and more inclusive union leadership could improve working conditions in the garment industry – particularly for women.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on international development
Displaying 21 - 40 of 54 articles
Britain uses its aid for soft power. How will that change after it leaves the EU?
Getting assistance to populations in need demands new ways of doing development that are smarter, faster and more efficient.
As Australia joins a New York summit to discuss the UN Sustainable Development Goals, it still faces questions over whether it is meeting water standards at home.
International development banks are supposed to ensure adherence to human rights in the projects they fund. Instead, their practices provide fertile ground for human rights abuses.
As the UN gears up to unveil the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, here are two new rules for development funding to help it go as far as possible.
Much of the world still lacks access to proper sanitation and clean water - an issue that needs urgent action. But without low-carbon technologies, clean water could come at the expense of the climate.
One of the biggest problems in international development is that health statistics are badly kept in many of the countries with the most to gain. Finally something is being done about it.
Tropical parasites have been moving up the world health agenda in recent years. They're still a long way from the top, though.
A dedicated group of forward-looking experts have crunched the numbers on human progress. There's good news, and there's bad news.
As Obama travels to Africa, it's a reminder of how people and communities need to play a bigger role in the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
A UNICEF report says global progress on child survival and reducing poverty has left behind some of the world's poorest children.
It's not a surprise that development aid frees up money for countries to spend on defence budgets. Why is the UK so shocked by its own policies?
There is a way for governments to find out the consensus on global issues such as climate change. But it involves painstaking, complex work, and an end to the adversarial clash of competing ideologies.
Bjorn Lomborg's "consensus" approach involves ranking global development policies by their ratio of benefit to cost. But this hard-headed economic rationale can actually end up entrenching inequality.
Overseas aid plays a huge role in defence, which makes cutting it a dangerous mistake.
At the dawn of the 21st century, 189 UN member states adopted the Millennium Declaration as the first common framework for promoting global development, committing to eight goals (six covering health and…
The UK has been named the top performer in Europe when it comes to entrepreneurs and fourth in the world, behind the US, Canada and Australia. Indeed, the top ten best performers are dominated by high-income…
Like many aid-dependent countries in the developing world, Malawi cannot balance its books without donor support, which makes up as much as 40% of the national budget. Yet because of the ongoing nightmare…
The geography of knowledge has always been uneven. Some people and places have always been more visible and had more voices than others. But the internet seemed to promise something different: a greater…
Top contributors
-
Reader in International Development, SOAS, University of London
-
PhD Student, University of Nottingham
-
Associate Professor, Urban & Regional Planning, Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
-
Director, Centre for Global Health & Associate Professor, University of Toronto
-
Director, Centre for Climate and Energy Policy, Australian National University
-
Honorary Associate Professor in Strategic Studies, Deakin University
-
Head of School of International and Political Studies, Deakin University
-
Adjunct Fellow, Western Sydney University
-
Adjunct Professor, Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
-
Adjunct Professor/ Strategy/ Foresighting/ Ecosystem Services, Australian National University
-
Foundation Director and Professorial Fellow, LH Martin Institute, University of Melbourne
-
Associate Professor, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
-
Professor of African and Development Studies, University of Edinburgh
-
Professor of Economics, University of Glasgow
-
Visiting Professor of Building Physics, University of Bath
