“…But, as the PM may find to his cost, agreeing a new set of numbers is a bit more difficult now than it was in 2000. The MDGs were cooked up by a group of rich countries sitting in a room and deciding how they wanted to spend their aid to help poor countries (I … Continue reading
Follow the debate on David Cameron’s appointment as chair of the UN panel established to devise a post-2015 international development framework. While John Hilary presents reasons why he sees Cameron as ‘unfit’ to chair the panel, Jamie Drummond views Cameron’s appointment as a ‘golden opportunity’.
New blog by Phil Vernon, Director of Programmes at International Alert: ‘Ten ideas for lobbying David Cameron as co-chair of the post-2015 MDG High Level Panel’.