Foreign aid
How the lords of poverty are squandering foreign aid
How corrupt UN aid barons keep Africans poor, sick and hungry
Almeida’s new play blames Britain for the ills of the Congo – when the problem is clearly aid
In the 1980s, supermarkets stocked a fruit juice named ‘Um Bongo’ with the strapline ‘They drink it in the Congo!’.…
Osborne's ringfence cycle
By now, George Osborne had hoped to have completed his austerity programme. Instead, he finds himself making what is, still,…
Letter from Kathmandu: China's beating India in the aid wars
After the first earthquake we were told that the chance of another one was 200 to 1. A fortnight later,…
Why foreign aid fails - and how to really help Africa
David Cameron’s favourite authors on what the government gets wrong about tackling poverty
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