Will this week's Mexico meeting on development cooperation produce any useful results?

Sierra Leone loses a huge amount of revenue every year through tax breaks for multinationals, says a new report..

Remittances from African migrants play a vital role in development but many of the benefits of remittance transfers are lost because of high charges, says a British think-tank.

The European Parliament voted last night to restrict speculation by banks and hedge funds to prevent them driving up food prices and fuelling global hunger.

Deforestation not dams was the main driver of disastrous flooding in the Madeira river watershed in Bolivia’and Brazil, argues a Peruvian academic.

The EU must take urgent action to halt the spread of invasive species that are threatening native plants and animals across Europe, according to a scientist.

Megaprojects are so large and the penalties of failure so catastrophic that governments and companies may at last be beginning to insist on better governance of these [...]

After Occupy, some community organisers are interested in questioning the old divide between ‘movements’ and ‘organisations’ – and harnessing the power of both.