Aid, trade and debt Archives

Organised Crime Thrived During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Karl Thompson / October 25, 2021

Criminal Contagion: How Mafias, Gangsters and Scammers profit from a Pandemic is a recent study produced by the Global Initiative […]

The UK Parliament voted on Tuesday to cut Overseas Aid from 0.7% of GDP to 0.5% of GDP, a cut

Karl Thompson / January 27, 2021

Fair Trade is where companies and consumers pay more than the free-market rate for products to ensure that workers receive

Karl Thompson / January 23, 2021

International trade policies seem to benefit large scale industrial farmers in Europe and hurt smaller scale farmers in Africa. This

Karl Thompson / January 21, 2021

Even with the recently announced cuts to UK development aid, the United Kingdom will still be spending around £10 billion

Karl Thompson / January 18, 2021

The United Kingdom has been a world leader in providing Official Development Aid in recent years. In 2019 the UK

Karl Thompson / December 2, 2020

This recent report by Global Justice Now highlights the increasing role of private sector companies in providing loans for development

Does Aid Work? The Aid Audit: Below is a summary of this World Service Podcast from 2015 Intro ‘Fifteen years

It could be used in the Global Development topics on ‘Organisations in Development’ or ‘the role of Private Aid in

Karl Thompson / February 23, 2017

The following two thinkers argue that aid can work, but it needs to be better targeted in order to be