Time to move beyond 0.7% aid debate

Countries that have successfully tackled poverty and inequality have done so not through foreign assistance but through the liberation of their own social, human and economic forces

Pots of gold

As a French multinational and Bangladeshi villagers join forces to help people work their way out of poverty, Liam Black finds a lesson for British business – and banks

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/feb/18/liam-black-bangladesh

‘Everybody knows it doesn’t work’

Despite receiving more than $1 trillion from the west over the last half century, Africa remains in dire economic straits. Dambisa Moyo thinks aid is to blame and should stop now. She talks to Aida Edemariam

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/feb/19/dambisa-moyo-dead-aid-africa

Letter to the Guardian responnding to this article http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/feb/21/development-aid-africa