Tag Archives: UK Liberal Democrats

It’s right to question aid, but better to focus on effectiveness, rather than the 0.7%

Posted on May 27, 2016 by ipeanddevelopment

Originally posted on Phil Vernon's blog:
A version of this post is on Huffington Post. In the UK, a parliamentary debate can be initiated by popular petition. On 13th June, Parliament will debate the proposition that the government’s approach…

Posted in DFID, International Development, Official Development Assistance, Posts, Poverty Reduction | Tagged 0.7% Legislation, 0.7%/GNI, aid, foreign aid, ODA, Official Development Assistance, Phil Vernon, UK Conservative Party, UK Labour Party, UK Liberal Democrats | Leave a comment

No, no, no, it does not turnupsavelives

Posted on March 9, 2015 by ipeanddevelopment

The 0.7% fetish reached its zenith today as the 0.7% bill by Michael Moore was passed today see this twitter announcement. Great, an archaic target is reached by the UK 45 years after it was not legally enshrined in the … Continue reading →

Posted in DFID, Humanitarian Aid, International Development, Official Development Assistance, Posts | Tagged 0.7% Legislation, 0.7%/GNI, aid, foreign aid, International Development, Michael Moore, ODA, Official Development Assistance, parliamentarians, turnupsavelives, Twiiter, UK Foreign Policy, UK Liberal Democrats, UK Parliament | 1 Comment

The Politics of International Development in major UK Political Parties

Posted on September 25, 2013 by ipeanddevelopment

It is pretty well known that after the New Labour government won power in 1997, international or global development became a key priority issue of discussion amongst both the government and the legislature. Continue reading →

Posted in DFID, International Development, Ivan Lewis, Justine Greening, Lynne Featherstone, OECD, Official Development Assistance, Organisaiton for Economic Cooperation and Development, Posts | Tagged 0.7% Legislation, 0.7%/GNI, Alex Evans, AusAid, Autumn Party Conference 2013, Bilateral Aid Review, Center for Global Development, Department for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Department for International Development, DFAT, DFID, foreign aid, Hilary Benn, International Development, Ivan Lewis, Justine Greening, Lord West, Lord West of Spithead, Lynne Featherstone, Military, Multilateral Aid Review, New Labour, ODA, OECD, Official Development Assistance, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Owen Barder, Party Manifesto, twitter, UK Conservative Party, UK Labour Party, UK Liberal Democrats | Leave a comment

Dear DFID, could you bring back the old days?

Posted on July 8, 2013 by ipeanddevelopment

So the UK’s esteemed Department for International Development (DFID) has moved to a fanciful new website (well that was a few months back) under the Tory-Lib Dem gov.uk domain. Personally, the new layout is terrible and every single old document, … Continue reading →

Posted in DFID, IDA, International Development, International Development Association, Posts, World Bank | Tagged Department for International Development, DFID, Institutional Strategy Papers, International Development, Multilateral Aid Review, The UK and the World Bank, UK Conservative Party, UK Labour Party, UK Liberal Democrats, UK Parliament, White Paper, World Bank, World Bank Group | Leave a comment

Queen’s speech 2013: The 0.7% worry, no fuss

Posted on May 5, 2013 by ipeanddevelopment

An extremely short blog post. Based on a…tweet! Ivan Lewis ‏@IvanLewis_MP Leaving 0.7 bill out of Queens speech shows Camerons weakness + lurch to right. + yet another eg of @nick_clegg’s impotence.#brokenpromise Again, I’ve no political affiliation. Nevertheless, I wonder … Continue reading →

Posted in DFID, International Development, Ivan Lewis, Justine Greening, Lynne Featherstone, ODI, Official Development Assistance, Poverty Reduction | Tagged 0.7%/GNI, Department for International Development, DFID, foreign aid, International Development, Ivan Lewis, Justine Greening, Lord West, Lord West of Spithead, Lynne Featherstone, ODA, Official Development Assistance, UK Conservative Party, UK Labour Party, UK Liberal Democrats, UK Parliament | Leave a comment

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

Posted on July 16, 2012 by ipeanddevelopment

Originally posted on Phil Vernon's blog:
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…

Posted in Alan Duncan, Andrew Mitchell, Campaigning, DFID, Glenys Kinnock, Harriet Harman, International Development, Ivan Lewis, Least Developed Countries, Mark Lazarowicz, ODI, Posts, Poverty Reduction, Rushanara Ali, Stephen O'Brien, Tony Cunningham | Tagged 0.7% Legislation, 0.7%/GNI, Campaigning, foreign aid, Gross Domestic Product, International Development, ODA, ODI, Official Development Assistance, Poverty Reduction, UK, UK Conservative Party, UK Labour Party, UK Liberal Democrats | Leave a comment

How dare you not legislate 0.7%…

Posted on July 3, 2012 by ipeanddevelopment

UK MPs are known, via the media, for having expenses scandals, complaining about intrusion into privacy or other little things which may result in their re-election or booting out. On the issue of spending 0.7% of GNI (or GDP or whatever measurement of an economy), however, almost all MPs are set on it so much that there was a furious debate on it being missed out as a legislation for the current parliamentary session 2012-2013. Continue reading →

Posted in Andrew Mitchell, DFID, International Development, Ivan Lewis, Mark Lazarowicz, Posts | Tagged 0.7% Legislation, 0.7%/GNI, Alec Shelbrooke, Alex Cunningham, Anas Sarwar, Andrew Mitchell, Andrew Murrison, Angus Robertson, Center for Global Development, CGD, CGDev, Daniel Kawczynski, David Cameron, Department for International Development, Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik, DFID, DIE, Douglas Alexander, Ed Miliband, Gareth Thomas, German Development Institute, Hansard, House of Commons, House of Lords, IDS, Institute for Development Studies, International Development, International Political Economy, Ivan Lewis, Lawrence Haddad, Lord's Select Committee on Economic Affairs, Malcolm Bruce, Mark Hendrick, Mark Lazarowicz, Meg Munn, Member of Parliament, Michael McCann, MP, MPs, Nic Dakin, Nick Clegg, Pauline Latham, Peter Wolff, Private Members’ Bills, Queen's Speech, Seema Malhotra, Stephen Gilbert, Tom Clarke, Tony Baldry, UK Conservative Party, UK Foreign Policy, UK Labour Party, UK Liberal Democrats, UK Parliament | 2 Comments

Tag Archives: UK Liberal Democrats

It’s right to question aid, but better to focus on effectiveness, rather than the 0.7%

No, no, no, it does not turnupsavelives

The Politics of International Development in major UK Political Parties

Dear DFID, could you bring back the old days?

Queen’s speech 2013: The 0.7% worry, no fuss

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

How dare you not legislate 0.7%…

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