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The elusive nexus of complexity and principles

Owen Barder’s lecture about complexity and development raises questions about UK development policy and the role of sustainability in complexity theory.

Published February 10, 2013
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged complex systems, development, UK

Another Rio banana skin for David Cameron

The Future We Want is the name of the Zero draft outcome document for the Rio+20 conference. Its content is not in line with the future the UK government wants.

Published January 13, 2012
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged rio+20, sustainable development, UK

Aid dilemmas bypassed by Busan Partnership

UK parliamentarians have instructed Andrew Mitchell to impose conditions on foreign aid to fragile or conflict-related countries such as Rwanda and Malawi. Have they given thought to what happens to the poor when aid is withdrawn as a punishment for bad government?

Published January 5, 2012
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged aid conditionality, ethiopia, malawi, UK

UK carries its climate credentials to Durban

Thanks to its pace-setting climate change legislation, the UK will occupy the moral high ground at the Durban climate talks. Will the minister put this advantage to the cause of the planet?

Published November 24, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged FCCC COP17, UK

Quantitative monkey business

Development economists increasingly advise donors to give aid directly to the poor. Why does the Bank of England hand out its favours directly to the banks?

Published October 7, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cash transfers, quantitative easing, UK

Glencore prospectus pong

There’s something fishy about the timing of Glencore’s London flotation in relation to implementation of the UK Bribery Act.

Published May 5, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged corruption, UK

Politics dictates UK bilateral aid review

The UK International Development Secretary, Andrew Mitchell, has a tough job in expanding UK aid when other government spending is being cut. His bilateral aid review chooses some risky partners.

Published March 16, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged ethiopia, foreign aid, fragile states, UK

REDD shafted by deepwater drilling concessions

Pressure builds on Indonesia to sign up to a moratorium on deforestation. Meanwhile, both US and UK governments refuse pleas for a moratorium on deepwater drilling for oil. Is this a contradiction?

Published January 10, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged indonesia, norway, oil, redd, UK, US

The US Emperor brings no clothes to CancĂșn

The US position in the CancĂșn climate change conference is that “nothing is agreed until everything is agreed.” Can it deliver its own side of this bargain?

Published December 8, 2010
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged FCCC COP16, reducing emissions, UK, US

Climate sceptics should try economics

One moment governments are spending their way out of recession; the next moment they’re imposing austerity cuts of historic proportions. The science of economics is in a far bigger mess than climate science.

Published June 21, 2010
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged climate change, economic management, UK

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Heaviness of being. And poetry
Sluggish in the doldrums of what happens.
Me waiting until I was nearly fifty
To credit marvels. Like the tree-clock of tin cans
The tinkers made. So long for air to brighten,
Time to be dazzled and the heart to lighten.

Seamus Heaney, from Seeing Things