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ODI On... UK General Election 2010

6 May 2010 00:00 - 23:59

The upcoming UK general election is touted as being the closest in a generation. What will the result mean for international development? 

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Dirk Willem te Velde

A development scorecard on the UK coalition agreement

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 20 May 2010
Yesterday saw the launch of the UK coalition agreement. Whilst such documents should not be seen as White Papers (and while continental European coalition negotiations tend to take longer to prepare such documents), it is rather tempting to go directly to the International Development Section of the agreement for a review on what is being said about development. However, we are living in a changed world.
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The G-20 in 2010: cementing the BRICKs of development

Publication - Briefing papers - 19 May 2010
Dirk Willem te Velde

The G-20 has taken centre stage in global economic governance following its swift and decisive response to the financial crisis. But the G-20 needs to tackle unfinished business urgently; there is no clearly defined role for the private sector in the G-20 and there is no formalised way of considering the interests of the poorest countries.

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Trading out of crises and reducing vulnerability

Publication - Briefing papers - 16 May 2010
Jodie Keane and Sheila Page

The UK needs to work within the EU to adopt a new approach to the Doha negotiations, EU preferences need to be updated for the 21st century, and any global or regional climate change deal must be dovetailed with the multilateral trading regime and with development priorities.

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The private sector and development

Publication - Briefing papers - 14 May 2010
Karen Ellis

Much more needs to be done to ensure that the incentives, policy frameworks and business models are in place for private sector investments to contribute positively to development.

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Why accountability matters

Publication - Briefing papers - 12 May 2010
Leni Wild, Marta Foresti and Dan Harris

Strengthening accountability is fundamentally a political activity, requiring a robust understanding of local politics (and not just party politics) combined with smarter and more flexible ways of delivering aid and technical support.

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UK Parliament covered in fog
UK Parliament covered in fog

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Charting the future: directions in UK development policy after the 2010 general election

Event - Public event - 21 April 2010 16:30 - 18:00 (GMT+01 (BST))

The aim of this meeting was to explore how changes in the political context may affect development policy in the coming years. The panel shared analysis of the current political landscape and the issues they see as being crucial to future development policy.

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The UK election and international development: main parties pledge 0.7%, but how will it be spent?

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 19 April 2010
The UK election campaign is hotting up.  Last week all the major political parties issued their manifestos and a few others besides. We also witnessed the first live televised debate between the three main contenders for the UK’s highest political office.  Whatever your political persuasion, it is hard to avoid a sense that after a thoroughly dismal period, UK politics is waking up.

But how will all this be perceived beyond the shores of the UK?

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Overview

The 2010 General Election left no party with an outright majority and for the first time in a generation the UK is run by a coalition government. Since its inception 13 years ago, the Department for International Development (DFID) has been led by a Labour minister. The new head is Conservative MP Andrew Mitchell, who sits in Cabinet alongside Liberal Democrats, two of whom lead departments with which DFID will have to work closely – Chris Huhne MP at the Department for Energy and Climate Change and Vincent Cable at the Department for Business Innovation and Skills.

All major parties are committed to maintaining DFID's seat at the cabinet table and to the 0.7% aid target. But differences nevertheless abound and there can be no doubt that the change in government will have significant implications for the development sector in the UK and the way the UK supports development.

ODI researchers have set out priority issues for the UK's future international development policy in a set of briefing notes and an introductory open letter to the new Secretary of State from ODI Director Alison Evans.

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