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Aid & development links: Development indicators, UK elections, Ghana, Daniel Craig and more

Aid & development links: Development indicators, UK elections, Ghana, Daniel Craig and more
Published 20 Apr 2015   Follow @StephieDunstan

  • New 2015 edition of World Bank Development indicators shows 25 years of progress, but much left to do.
  • The report includes some good interactives; you can compare country progress on specific MDG goals.
  • Read CARE Australia's submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry on issues facing women and girls in the Asia Pacific.
  • How should aid be spent? Take the Guardian poll
  • Putting need before politics on the post-MDG agenda. World Politics Review post from Sarah Hearn.
  • Aid? What aid? Why neither major party is discussing it during the election campaign.
  • Why Ghana's success story has gone dark. Good post on Ghana's shaky economic success. (Thanks Sam.)
  • The UN appoints actor Daniel Craig as global mine action advocate:



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