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What Do the UK Election Manifestos Mean for Development?
Arthur Baker et al.
November 28, 2019
With the UK General Election just two weeks away, we know that international development is a high priority issue for our blog-reading voters. We have examined each of the main party’s manifestos and analysed their international development commitments.
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How the UK Treasury Can Allocate £15 Billion of Aid to “Greatest Effect”
Ian Mitchell
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Arthur Baker
July 30, 2019
Last week, the new UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson made sweeping changes to government ministers. Below we set out the limitations of the last spending review—and five ways to do better.
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Five Things the Health Minister Should Do to Enhance the UK’s Global Health Footprint
Kalipso Chalkidou
July 29, 2019
As Health Secretary Matt Hancock returns to his role as part of Boris Johnson’s premiership, he has an opportunity to make good on the UK’s renewed confidence and ambition by drawing on what the new prime minister calls the “best healthcare [system]” to drive improv...
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Focusing UK Research Aid Where It Matters
Lee Robinson et al.
July 25, 2019
The UK’s development agency, DFID, has stated that it views research as the best way to spend aid and that it intends to place high quality research central to its aid strategy. In a new paper, we find significant problems with the way that UK aid is being used to back rese...