Tax is a hotly debated issue in the run-up to the G8 summit in June 2013, with western media featuring headline news on tax avoidance every day: Starbucks, Google, Apple.
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This event discusses Matt Andrews' new book 'The limits of institutional reforms in development' and its implications for the theory and practice of reforming public sector institutions in developing countries.
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This ODI, Development Finance International and Oxfam event will launch Government Spending Watch – a new database that tracks what developing country governments are spending on achieving the MDGs.
A DFID (Department for International Development) Logistics Officer helps to load a pallet of humanitarian aid to Pakistan onboard a C-17 aircraft, following devastating floods in the country in 2010. The tents were provided by the Department for International Development (DFID) which deals with global relief and development on behalf of Her Majesty’s Government.
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What will be the role of ‘traditional’ donors, including long-standing multilaterals and DAC bilaterals, in a changing 'aidscape'? How do these agencies understand their contribution and comparative advantage? How are they already changing their working practices? This meeting will discuss these challenges, and try and identify some of the possible responses.
