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Should Theresa May Ditch the Aid Target?
Owen Barder
April 21, 2017
Aid is amazingly good value for money. For the same money the government willingly spends to save a life in a developed country such as the UK, we save around 100 or even 1,000 lives in the developing world.
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Payouts for Perils: How Insurance Can Radically Improve Emergency Aid (Brief)
The Payout for Perils Working Group
April 13, 2017
Unpredictable funding undermines effective response to natural disasters. Two key innovations pre-agree funding for future disaster risks to save lives, money, and time: pivot existing funding to enable goverments and agencies to pre-enroll for quick-fire sup[port aganist predicatable future cost...
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Payouts for Perils: How Insurance Can Radically Improve Emergency Aid
Theodore Talbot et al.
April 07, 2017
Millions of people face hazards like cyclones and drought every day. International aid to deal with disasters after they strike is generous, but it is unpredictable and fragmented, and it often fails to arrive when it would do the most good. We must stop treating disasters like surprises. Matching f...
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Beyond Brexit: End of EU-UK ‘Free Movement’ Should Reset Debate on UK Migration Policy
Ian Mitchell
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Anita Käppeli
March 30, 2017
By triggering Article 50, the UK Government has started the process of leaving the EU and will end ‘free movement’ between the EU and UK. But what then on migration? Free movement and EU expansion were behind substantial increases in migration to the UK in the last decade, and likely led...