From the perspective of Mary Robinson, President of the Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice and former president of Ireland and U.N. High Commissioner of Human Rights, donors should do much more in supporting health in developing countries – especially when those nations take bold steps to improve health care.
Four years after stepping down as Britain's premier, Tony Blair is taking lessons learned in office and applying them in Africa.
Phillippa Young writes about Liberia's inaugural marathon, due to take place in Monrovia on 28 August 2011.
ODI reflecting on what may happen after the MDGs expire in 2015
Charles Kenny argues that famine is not an act of God, but an act of mass murder.
Emerging partners bring with them a whole range of new opportunities, financial tools and modalities. However, many of these instruments are complex and should be analysed carefully in order to assess their real economic effect. Increased transparency in financial transactions between African countries and their partners is crucial to analyse their impact on growth and debt sustainability, especially for the most fragile African states, and would also strengthen the credibility of the emerging partners as key actors of development co-operation.
This month the World Bank issued its annual list of countries by income category: rich, middle, poor. Several African countries are faring rather better than Somalia; they have graduated from poor to middle-income status.
John Githongo on the potential consequences of wealth inequality in Africa
The donor community has a responsibility too: is it ready to deliver smarter aid, and to face the difficult choices and changes that this is likely to entail at the domestic level as well?
UK Prime Minister delivers a speech on aid, trade and democracy in Nigeria
