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MDGs: end corruption to end poverty

19 December 2013 in Aid, Anti-corruption movement, Civil society, Cost of Corruption, Health, Human rights, Measurement and Research, Poverty and development, Water

International anti-corruption day may have come and gone, but 9 December also offers the chance to look to where else the fight remains to stop the corrupt in their tracks. Nowhere is this more urgent than in the fight against poverty. “To end poverty, you have to end corruption” is a call to action that […]

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Letter to the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals

15 April 2013 in Poverty and development

In follow-up to the Rio+20 meetings in June 2012, a group of 30 countries – known as the Open Working Group (OWG) – has been tasked by the UN to propose new goals on sustainable development. The timeline for work is to coincide with broader UN discussions about what should replace the Millennium Development Goals, […]

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