Tag: mdg

23rd December 2013 Washington DC, USA

by Andrew Preston

Development Counsellor

2013 in Review: Washington’s Development Highlights

This is a joint post by Andrew Preston and Rosanna Kim who work on international development issues at the British Embassy in Washington. We are loving all the different reviews of the past year, with the best and worst from the world of films, books, and music. So we thought it would be fun to […]

Read more on 2013 in Review: Washington’s Development Highlights | Reply

4th June 2013

Avatar photo

by Nigel Baker

Ambassador to the Holy See (2011-2016)

The Poor and the Powerful: A New Global Partnership

Can we be the generation to eliminate extreme poverty from the earth? This is the challenge set by the Report of the High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, co-chaired at the request of the UN Secretary General by the Presidents of Liberia and Indonesia, and the Prime Minister of the United […]

Read more on The Poor and the Powerful: A New Global Partnership | Reply (1)

6th December 2012 Washington DC, USA

by Peter Westmacott

Former Ambassador to the United States of America

Rethinking Development

Back in the days when tweeting was what birds did, a cloud was something in the sky, an app was what you sent to the university admissions office, and Google was simply a misprint for the word which means 10100, who’d have thought that mobile phones could improve the daily lives of the world’s poorest […]

Read more on Rethinking Development | Reply

29th October 2010

Avatar photo

by Greg Dorey

Diplomat

"No man is an island": Developments in development

Having worked and lived in various countries, but in particular during several years spent in Pakistan (where I also worked on development issues in Afghanistan), I am strongly convinced of the critical importance for us all of international development work. And specifically the need to implement the 8 Millennium Development Goals (MDG). In recent months, […]

Read more on "No man is an island": Developments in development | Reply