Rich countries increasingly the recipients of their own aid, according to OECD DAC data
Blog / 21st April 2023Rich countries continue to be the recipients of large amounts of their own aid, according to new statistics released today by the OECD Development Assistance Committee.
What if…there was a World Tax Organisation?
Blog / 17th February 2023There is a practical, possible alternative to the enduring injustice of global inequality: an intergovernmental tax body under the auspices of the United Nations, writes Alex Cobham.
In the sixth largest economy a fifth of us are in poverty
Blog / 17th February 2023New figures this week from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation found that 13.4m people, or one in five of the population, were left in poverty during the first year of the pandemic over 2020 to 2021.
The scramble to help Ukraine shows the need for more, better aid
Blog / 9th February 2023There is no shortage of money – only a shortage of political will to create a fairer world where prosperity is better shared, writes Gabriela Bucher.
Ending the austerity pandemic
Blog / 3rd January 2023Unless austerity is reversed, people in developing countries will lose social protections and public services just when they are most needed. And it doesn’t have to be this way, write Isabel Ortiz and Matthew Cummins for Project Syndicate.