With global population predicted to rise to over nine billion this century, can we find a solution to the problem of ever-increasing strains on resources without resorting to alarmism and xenophobia?

One theme needs much more emphasis, both in the Dutch WRR report and the current UN MDG review process more generally: if aid and the MDGs are to maintain legitimacy and credibility in their potential to forge what Andy Sumner calls a ‘new develop...

In my last blog I discussed the fact that poverty and even rights-based agendas can be easily co-opted into a 'Washington Consensus' policy paradigm. How then can we avoid this propensity? In my background paper I suggested that this should be don...

After reading Andy Sumner’s article and then attending the policy forum I thought I would share some of my reflections on the issues that have been raised. It is important to recall that addressing poverty is not particularly antithetical with the...