FiveBooks: Nicola Jones on Gender Equality

Human rights ~ Inequality ~ Social exclusion ~ Social norms ~ Poverty

A new mood at the MDG Summit

Governance ~ Multilateral institutions ~ Health ~ Poverty

Aid effectiveness post-2010: A think piece on ways forward

Aid

Why the MDGs need critical friends

Aid ~ Economics ~ Economic growth ~ Governance ~ Inequality ~ Social protection ~ Ghana ~ sub-Saharan Africa ~ Poverty

Is Africa's tide turning?

Economics ~ Economic growth ~ sub-Saharan Africa

Africa's economic growth: the role of state-business relations

Economics ~ Economic growth ~ Financial systems ~ Private sector  ~ Asia ~ China ~ Ghana ~ Mauritius ~ South Africa ~ sub-Saharan Africa ~ Tanzania ~ Zambia

Climate change or attempts to tackle climate change - which is more dangerous for the developing world?

Economics ~ Green growth ~ Private sector  ~ Asia ~ Climate change ~ China ~ Europe ~ India ~ Kenya ~ Netherlands ~ sub-Saharan Africa

Voices of change: Can China’s youth get their message across?

Adaptation ~ Environment ~ Humanitarian ~ Water ~ Asia ~ Climate change ~ China ~ Urban

Praise for ‘the cowboys’ on World Humanitarian Day

Fragile states ~ Humanitarian ~ Humanitarian system ~ Politics ~ Protection ~ Security ~ Violence ~ Global ~ Conflict

Commercialised microfinance: a Wall Street-style calamity for the poor?

Economics ~ Finance ~ Private sector  ~ Asia ~ India

Trust and value through long-term market relationships: better than a short-term focus on price

Agriculture & food ~ Economics ~ Private sector  ~ Ethiopia ~ Europe ~ North America ~ sub-Saharan Africa ~ United Kingdom (UK) ~ United States (US) ~ Trade & investment ~ Poverty ~ Jobs & livelihoods

The private sector and development

Economics ~ Private sector 

Why a focus on mitigation and adaptation conceals the real challenge of climate change

Adaptation ~ Environment ~ Governance ~ Resilience ~ Asia ~ Brazil ~ Climate change ~ China ~ India ~ Latin America ~ South Africa ~ sub-Saharan Africa ~ Biodiversity

Brazil’s development cooperation with the South: a global model in waiting

Aid ~ Economic transformation ~ Governance ~ Asia ~ Brazil ~ China ~ India ~ Latin America ~ Middle East and North Africa ~ Saudi Arabia

Returning to first principles – why give aid to some countries and not to others?

Aid ~ Asia ~ India

From a ‘shack’ to a new-age building? Appraising the new UN gender equality architecture

Governance ~ Multilateral institutions ~ Global

'Dumbing down' the audience

Global

General budget support and the Millennium Development Goals

Aid ~ Global

From think tank to think net: the virtues of virtuality

Summer surprise or summer shock? How did the EU’s development ministers treat the Commission’s Spring Package?

Foreign policy ~ Governance ~ Multilateral institutions ~ Europe