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That the IFC (& Bill Gates Imaginable Futures) refuse to pay compensation to victims of sexual abuse by their teachers is despicable They knowingly financed an unregulated school chain, boasting it employed untrained teachers When kids got raped they covered up & refused to pay up

bond.org.uk/news/2024/04/t… Good analysis of the euphemism-laden OECD Development mid-term peer review of UK ODA The review finding that "Further work is needed to fully seize the opportunities of an integrated ministry" is certainly one way of putting it

“What is climate finance? Dunno. But we’re definitely providing 100bn of it”. Martha G. Bekele and I explore the resistance among providers of climate finance to agree on how to measure it, and what Charles Goodhart might have to say about the controversy devinit.org/blog/do-we-nee…

New post on why ICAI criticism of BII investments in Indian cosmetics manufacturer and social media platforms miss the mark. Symptomatic of a UK dev't sector that is too often performative and focused on pleasing specific domestic audiences. odi.org/en/insights/on…

Climate Finance: Are we spending blind? $73bn of public money is spent on international climate finance - but we know little about its impact. Beata Cichocka 🇺🇦🌻 and I assess the gaps and what needs to be done @cgdev cgdev.org/blog/internati…

Does lead, even at low levels, really reduce IQ? Stuart Ritchie 🇺🇦 & Tom Chivers are sceptical: thestudiesshowpod.com/p/episode-37-l… But they missed a few natural experiments! 1/n

At the heart of the #SB60 climate talks in Bonn is a big document that everyone hopes will form the basis for a new goal on climate finance. Right now it's a mess because it's full of countries' divergent views on what that will look like. Quick 🧵 on some of those views...

It’s time for the #G7 to #PayUp for climate finance. We didn’t get progress this week in Bonn at #SB60, so we need real action from #G7 this weekend. CAN-UK’s Catherine Pettengell outlines what happened at #SB60 and what needs to happen before #COP29 here: bond.org.uk/news/2024/06/g…

Really looking forward to being part of this panel at #LCAW2024, with other speakers far more knowledgeable than I. I'll be talking about Development Initiatives (DI)'s new work on lack of consistency in climate finance reporting, and modest recommendations that could move us in right direction

The most disproportionate election in British history #GE2024 PROVISIONAL RESULT 🔴 Labour: 34% votes = 63% seats 🔵 Tory: 24% votes = 18% seats 🟣 Reform: 14% votes = <1% seats 🟠 Lib Dem: 12% votes = 11% seats 🟢 Green: 7% votes = <1% seats 🟡 SNP: 2% votes = 1% seats 🧵 1/3

Thanks Vince Chadwick for featuring the latest report from euan ritchie, which highlights problems with #ClimateFinance reporting and sets out practical steps to make it more transparent, detailed and consistent, a key issue for #COP29 and beyond devex.com/news/devex-inv…

On the other hand, if you started with £40 around the time of the dinosaurs you'd need to average a mere 0.00003% return to end up with 31.2 billion. Don't know what rates were like in the Jurassic period (don't think even Piketty went back that far) but it sounds modest

I often see invoked the late economic historian Nick Craft's book to support the view that the policy changes of the 1980s improved the performance of the British economy. But what Crafts argues is NOT quite you would expect from the popular interpretation of the 1980s...