Opinion

Olusoji Adeyi on global health, narcissistic charity, and neo-dependency

Decades of being drip-fed on deleterious forms of foreign aid have caused African countries and institutions to wither. But they have done so blissfully, until the COVID-19 pandemic unmasked the primordial...

Opinion December 31, 2021

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Martin Griffiths on UN’s grim humanitarian outlook for 2022

Forty-one billion dollars. That’s what aid agencies need to help people facing war, disease and hunger...

Opinion December 02, 2021

Supporting indigenous Afghan structures could be a lifeline in new Taliban era

Can linking NGOs to traditional Afghan community institutions create a new humanitarian paradigm, and...

Opinion October 29, 2021

Rethink financing of global public goods

As global challenges mount, politicians increasingly view development aid budgets as a source of easy...

Opinion Editorial October 11, 2021

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Church groups call for ‘game-changing’ Food Summit

Four Nordic church groups and Christian Aid say small farmers should be the main focus of the UN Food...

Opinion September 23, 2021

Critical reflections on ten years of the Guyana-Norway REDD+ agreement

The bilateral climate forest agreement was meant to be a model for the world. Instead, it was based on...

Opinion July 03, 2021

Per Fredrik Pharo: ‘Misleading’ on Guyana

Guyana and Norway have collaborated to promote green development in Guyana while keeping deforestation...

Opinion June 16, 2021

Danish PM Frederiksen’s betrayal of Nordic values

A new Danish law opens for the export of Denmark’s asylum obligations to a third country. Having covered...

Opinion Editorial June 04, 2021

Desmond McNeill: The limitation of bond schemes

A proposed bond scheme inspired by IFFIm, which aims to trigger a massive expansion in aid, won’t work,...

Opinion May 08, 2021

Peter Sands: We must scale-up the global response to COVID-19. This needs more than vaccines

In many rich countries, discussion of COVID-19 revolves around the pace of vaccine deployment and the...

Opinion April 28, 2021

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