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Creating jobs by creating the right conditions for jobs

Posted by: Stuart Tibbs, Senior Economic Adviser, Posted on: 4 September 2014 - Categories: Economic Development
The UK is helping poor women access micro credit loans to set up small businesses in Pakistan. Picture: Victoria Francis/ DFID

Last month I joined Justin Lin – the ex-Chief Economist of the World Bank and something of a rock star in the world of development economics – to talk at a conference in Geneva organised by the Donor Committee for …

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The jobs and poverty paradox

Posted by: Stuart Tibbs, Senior Economic Adviser, Posted on: 8 July 2014 - Categories: Economic Development

What do we mean when we say we are creating jobs in developing countries? That's not as easy to answer as it might first appear. For a start, few people in developing countries are ‘unemployed’ as we might use the …

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Commitment to win the battle against undernutrition

Posted by: Anne Philpott, Nutrition and Health Advisor, Posted on: 11 June 2013 - Categories: Nutrition

We now know that undernutrition is the cause of nearly half of all child deaths – and we know what we can do about it. Last week there was a series of high level nutrition events in London. I’m part …

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