Blair, Brown and the Gleneagles agenda: Making poverty history, or confronting the global politics of unequal development?

Article Abstract:

British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Chancellor Gordon Brown set out an ambitious agenda of global development change at the July 2005 G8 summit, held at Gleneagles, UK, but many of their policy commitments turned out to be much less far-reaching than expected. The Gleneagles agenda can never work to 'make poverty history' as such an achievement is simply not within the scope of the G8 to deliver, but instead must be worked out within the context of a global politics of unequal development.

Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Economic aspects, Forecasts and trends, Market trend/market analysis, Poverty, Global economy

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British government policy in sub-Saharan Africa under new labor

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Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair's interest and policy in African issues has enabled him to shape the British government policy of humanitarianism and self-interest. The main aim of this policy is to reduce poverty and enable development and to handle the principal obstacles to development: conflict, HIV, debt, and trade barriers.

Political aspects, Humanitarian aid

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'Advice is judged by results not by intentions': Why Gordon Brown is wrong about Africa

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Chancellor Gordon Brown considers the year 2005 a milestone in the United Kingdom's campaign in order to meet the goals of UN millennium, in order to reduce poverty, illiteracy, and disease across the world. His intentions are good but due to his lack of knowledge about Africa his solutions are simple but wrong.

Government expenditures, Economic policy, United Nations

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