Category Archives: Alan Duncan

Is overseas aid an instrument of soft power?

Posted on July 30, 2013 by ipeanddevelopment

I was giving evidence to a UK House of Lords select committee on aid as an instrument of soft power yesterday, so spent a bit of time researching what “soft power” actually means. It turns out it’s not just a…

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It’s not really such a great aid mystery

Posted on January 7, 2013 by ipeanddevelopment

The latest edition of The Spectator carries an opinion piece by Jonathan Foreman entitled The Great Aid Mystery http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/8808521/the-great-aid-mystery/. In a diatribe laced with rather tired tropes, and whose style undermines the argument he makes, Foreman’s main points when stripped of rhetoric can…

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Senior Tory accuses EU of “squandering” Britain’s aid budget.

Posted on October 21, 2012 by ipeanddevelopment

Originally posted on The Truth is Where?:
By Robert Mendick and Andrew Gilligan  29th September 2012. Find Full Article Here:- A senior Government minister has accused the European Union of squandering Britain’s international aid budget on schemes that often have…

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Squaring the Circle: is it time to stop this 0.7% nonsense?

Posted on July 16, 2012 by ipeanddevelopment

People and organisations in the UK’s overseas development sector are getting hot under the collar. This is because the government is not prioritising legislation to enshrine a perpetual commitment to spend 0.7% of UK Gross National Income (GNI) on overseas development aid…

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DFID and the end of its aid to China

Posted on August 4, 2010 by ipeanddevelopment

Andrew Mitchell, Alan Duncan and Stephen O’Brien, the new trio in charge of DFID have recently ended DFID’s bilateral aid programme to China. Continue reading →

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The spotlight on Alan Duncan MP, the new Minister of State for DFID

Posted on July 29, 2010 by ipeanddevelopment

The focus here is a highly unliklely candidate for DFID’s second in command. Continue reading →

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