License: ODI given rights
Credit: Guy Oliver
Source: IRIN
Dr Guy Scott MP, Vice President of the Republic of Zambia, will discuss the key challenges, opportunities and trade-offs that the new Government is facing in order to sustain and utilise high levels of growth to accelerate poverty reduction, address high levels of inequity, and improve governance.
The past two weeks have thrown Malawi into heated debates on the true meaning of democracy. One key issue is whether the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) MPs who visited President Joyce Banda to express their support at her home on 7 April, well before she took office as Malawi’s new President, abused their role to gain power and favours from ‘the President to be’.
Does democracy lead to development and the protection of human rights? In light of the Arab Spring Alina Rocha Menocal presents evidence on progress in making the transition to democracy.
The European Union’s communication on trade, growth and development, launched on 27 January, sets the framework for its actions on trade and development in the coming decade.
A recent ODI event on Libya helped to crystallise some of the dilemmas and tensions embedded in contemporary state-building efforts, both domestic and international.