PovertyDiscourse We know that many people in the UK misunderstand poverty and development: there’s reams of evidence on that. But there are interesting lessons to be had when we look at what it is that they actually think. For example: the idea that Oxfam run...
Reality, when served with the right amount of humour, becomes easy to digest. The issue of income inequality and the widening gap in America received this very special treatment from John Oliver. On Last Week Tonight’s July 13 2014 episode, John Oliver picked every...
News from Brussels on July 28 and from Washington on July 29 that both the EU and US are stepping up sanctions on Russia have been met with a general “it’s about time” from the world. Nobody outside Russia, it seems, has trouble roundly condemning Russian President...
Right now, a long and complicated process is underway to replace the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which expire in 2015, with new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These will set the parameters for international development for the next fifteen years and...
