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Once again it falls to Labour to provide leadership – Labour to table Private Member’s Bill on 0.7%
With Cameron and Mitchell delaying legislation to enshrine the 0.7% aid target yet again – this time by three more years – it has once again fallen to Labour to provide leadership. The Coalition ‘Programme for Government’ agreed in 2010 that it would match Labour’s pledge to pass legislation committing the UK to spending 0.7 per…
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LCID Members Reception
Thank you to everyone who attended our reception in Parliament on Wednesday for our Founding Members. Ivan Lewis and LCID Honorary Co-Presidents Rachel Reeves MP and Baroness Glenys Kinnock addressed a packed room of over 100 people. Ivan spoke of the need for a new progressive covenant on development to take us beyond the MDGs…
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Reminder: Members Reception tomorrow (+ directions)
Just a final reminder that tomorrow Wednesday 13 June we will be holding our reception for the Founding Members of LCID, with Shadow Secretary State Ivan Lewis MP and our Honorary Co-Presidents Rachel Reeves MP and Baroness Glenys Kinnock. The reception will start promptly at 18.30, please allow 15 minutes to get through security. Please arrive at the Cromwell Green…
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Tweets and headlines from Rio+20
Alex Farrow is in Brazil attending the Rio+20 conference. Rio+20 is the informal name for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development and is happening 20 years after the Earth Summit in 1992. World leaders (Nick Clegg & Caroline Spelman for us) will be attending the negotiations at the end of June and the conference will provide us…
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Lessons from Make Poverty History
This week, as talks continue between NGOs for a new joint campaign, The Guardian published ‘Lessons from Make Poverty History.’ Kirsty McNeill – who served on the co-ordination team of Make Poverty History before joining N0.10 as an advisor – gave her reflections on the campaign’s strengths and weaknesses. Strengths: Populism. If your theory of change is based on getting huge numbers…
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Gambling on hunger: commodity trading & food prices
Tuesday 19 June from 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM – Committee Room 8, Houses of Parliament LCID and the Co-operative Party are co-hosting this event on the transparency of commodity trading, food speculation and the price of food. In a world where a billion people do not have enough to eat, we need to sort out the…
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Oxfam: Be Outraged: Austerity isn’t working
by Richard Jolly. Richard is a Research Associate at the Institute of Development Studies at University of Sussex and former UN Assistant Secretary General. European leaders pushing austerity as the solution to the current economic crisis are guilty of bad economics, bad arithmetic and ignoring the lessons of history. That’s not just my view but the considered…
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Lord McConnell Lives Below the Line
by Lord Jack McConnell With over one billion people in our world living on less than £1 a day, the challenge of tackling extreme global poverty in our world can seem both overwhelming and, for many, far removed from our own reality. The solutions for this situation, like the reasons behind it, are complex and…
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Come to LCID’s Members Reception
On Wednesday 13th June we will be holding our first LCID Reception with our Honorary Co-President’s Rachel Reeves MP and Baroness Glenys Kinnock – and Shadow Secretary of State Ivan Lewis MP. It will take place from 18:30-19:30 in the CPA Room, Westminister Hall, Parliament, London. We would be delighted if you were able to…
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The Politics of Development
This article was first published by The Fabian Society. Two years ago, the G20 committed themselves to promoting inclusive and sustainable economic growth, having argued that ‘for prosperity to be sustained it must be shared.’ Yet as world leaders prepare to attend the next G20 Summit in Mexico next month, new data from Oxfam has…
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