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Review of the White Paper on Irish Aid

“Every day you are helping the world’s poorest people” opens the summary of the Government White paper on Irish Aid.

Cocoa with a conscience

In 2007, Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake asked photographer James Mollison to contribute to an exhibition on Chocolate that he

Good news from Africa

It’s that time of the year again when news desks review the previous 12 months highlighting what is deemed important

A bad year for bad guys

2011 was a year of extraordinary people-powered resistance, starting with the ‘Arab Spring’ and spreading across many parts of the

Time Person of the Year: The Protestor

No one could have known that when a Tunisian fruit vendor set himself on fire in a public square, it

Paying the bills and taking from their tills: pitching development in an age of austerity

21st Century Development animation that accompanied Bill Gate’s speech By Gentleman Scholar and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Last

Making sense of ‘developmentspeak’

Macroprudential regulation is supposed to deal with two major issues: the procyclicality of the financial system, and systemic risk and

Human Rights Day 2011, and the rest

It was Human Rights Day on Saturday! Does that mean every other day of the year is a human rights

Nando’s ‘chicken’ out of spoof Last Dictator Standing advert

https://youtu.be/PYnL5oUePM8If you were Nando’s and you were receiving threats from Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF loyalists, would you have