Alison Evans

Alison Evans is director of programmes for the <a href="http://www.odi.org.uk/pppg/">poverty and public policy group</a> of the <a href="http://www.odi.org.uk/about/">Overseas Development Institute</a

Four immediate responses to Phil Vernon

Phil Vernon asks if overseas development aid is working. This is a good moment, he argues, to take a step back and ask ourselves whether we would call today’s aid policy and practise successful in providing sufficient impetus to overcome the strong forces worldwide that keep people poor. Four imme

By Tina Wallace and Alison Evans

/ 9 Nov 2009

Too little, too late? The UN and the global financial crisis

The title of the summit being held at the United Nations in New York on 24-26 June 2009 - the United Nations Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis

By Alison Evans and Dirk Willem te Velde

/ 23 Jun 2009

Financing development: from Monterrey to Doha

For the world's poorest nations, the United Nations conference on financing for development (FFD) in Doha on 29 November - 2 December 2008 is the most important economic

By Simon Maxwell and Alison Evans

/ 26 Nov 2008