On the 17-18 June, leaders from the G8 countries will gather at Lough Erne in Northern Ireland. On the agenda are three key issues: advancing trade; ensuring tax compliance; promoting greater transparency.
In advance of the summit, ODI...
First steps towards 2015 global agreement?
The 2013 climate change conferences in Bonn are hoped to be the first steps towards an agreement on global climate action in Paris in 2015. With the Fast Start Finance period...
The Conference of the Parties is the largest event of the year for those working on climate change. This year attention turns to Qatar, the host of the 18th of these major conferences.
As the debate over aid spending continues to rage in the UK and countries traditionally associated with providing assistance tighten their belts, longer term trends are fundamentally altering the landscape of development cooperation. What is the role of aid in...
There is already an active debate on what might follow the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), when they expire in 2015. ODI is right at the heart of it, with our research and policy advice linking directly to governments, NGOs and UN agencies.
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As the world adjusts to higher food prices ODI studies: changes in international cereal markets; the causes and impacts of higher food prices; potential policies to mitigate harm as well as exploring the links from agriculture to poverty, hunger and...
Since the civil war began there in March 2011, an estimated 100,000 people have been killed, five million have been displaced within Syria and over two million – half of them children – have fled to neighbouring countries. Humanitarian agencies have struggled...
Two new reports from ODI highlight the critical opportunity for integrating disaster resilience across emerging international policy frameworks and the set of options for including it in post-2015 goals.