What should be the future of UK-Bangladesh relations after aid? Exit DFID, enter the Universities.
Guest bloggers Saleemul Huq, International Centre for Climate Change and Development, and David Lewis, Department of Social Policy at the LSE, suggest a new future for UK-Bangladesh relations once Bangladesh graduates from a Least Developed Country to a Middle Income Country in 2021.
Ever since Bangladesh became an independent country in December 1971 the United Kingdom has been a major development partner. For the […]
An open letter from fifteen leading development economists
An open letter from fifteen leading development economists
In a recent open letter on The Guardian Online, fifteen leading economists, including LSE Professor of Gender and Development, Naila Kabeer, argue that relying on randomised control trials to guide aid spending will lead to short-term, superficial and misplaced policies.
Development efforts over the past few decades have not been as effective as promised.
Global poverty remains intractable: more than 4 billion people […]