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How to Tackle the UK's Chronic Nursing Shortage—and Help Development

June 29, 2017
What if there were a way to reduce the nursing shortage in the UK in a way that is good for the National Health Service (NHS), good for developing countries, and good for nurses?
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The UK and Development after the Election—Two Ambitions for a New Government

June 09, 2017
The UK election has shown again that electorates can throw up unexpected results, with long-standing poll leads evaporating in a matter of weeks. The British public seem uninspired by any single leader but there was little sign of descending into nationalism and populism. The only party that stood o...
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What a UK Election Manifesto on Development Might Look Like: 19 Proposals from CGD

April 24, 2017
Attention UK political parties: we know you are pretty busy right now, what with Prime Minister Theresa May calling a snap general election in a few weeks. So, we wrote an election manifesto on development for you. Feel free to plagiarize it; in fact, we’ve written it so you can just copy/past...
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Should Theresa May Ditch the Aid Target?

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.