With $43.5 billion in assets, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is a major player in the field of international aid. Seated next to the World Bank President, Bill Gates, the former CEO of Microsoft, outlined three game-changers to ensure development. First, donors need to be constant in their...

If we can spread the idea that poverty is created, we can help expose the causes of poverty and inequality, and create awareness that we need to change the rules of neoliberal capitalism, not just provide a little bit of palliative care.

As we counter the story the establishment is telling about the sustainable development process, here are articles that support tell the true story of poverty and development.

The UN is currently coordinating a grand manoeuver of immense complexity. In order to agree to a new generation of global development outcomes called the Sustainable Development Goals. Unfortunately, even a cursory understanding of the data shows it is little more than hype, designed to rally public support behind a...

There are, essentially, two grand narratives about these times we live in. We can think of each as a kind of foundational logic, invoked as a way to frame the vastly complex reality we see all around us, and therefore help determine how we understand and respond to it.

Bill and Melinda Gates just released their annual letter, "Our Big Bet for the Future," with their thoughts on the current state of global poverty and the suite of projects they are funding to tackle it. While their hopeful tone and a good deal of what they are proposing is...

This webinar will examine and invite debate on the evidence behind concerns about the approach being taken to “fix” public attitudes to development by The Narrative Project and, particularly, the Gates Foundation.

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 orphanages, something that surfaced when Oxfam...